Bob Dylan wanted to be like Woody Guthrie and eventually met him. There's this concept of wanting to be like someone else. Maybe Eminem distorted it with the Stan music video. So making sense by using references from the past. But how many people will nay say and inhibit you?
So I've heard of people wanting to be like someone else. EG Bob Dylan wanted to be like Woody Guthrie. That's a a story bluesmen apprenticing under another and taking their leftovers. Is instead a better idea to be a practicing catholic?
So some may lump this under a form of mental illness. But still there's other explanations like in education using references. Basing things off other successes these people.
Maybe this is like simulcra. To do a shoddier copy of someone else. Using the technique of sampling others can seem to work. How many people use royalty free stuff like Shakespeare?
Tobias Smollet was a influence for Charles Dickens. We all probably have heroes we admire. But maybe religion can stop this idolatry. Is it worth doing what you first set out for still?
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