Larry Lessig sheds light onto a troubling and cumbersome issue in his book, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.  In Part One of his book, Lessig discusses the cultures of our past and compares it to the cultures of our future.  While discussing the cultures of our past, Lessig writes about the “RW Culture Versus RO Culture” and later goes on to discusses how “nature is remade,” as well as “re-remaking nature.”  Lessig also discusses “RW” which he sums up as “revived” and discusses the importance behind remixing text and media.  Moreover, Lessig discusses in RW how writing is beyond words, and how our society and generation are in an era that is changing.  He writes, out with “the old in the new.”

What was interesting about Lessig’s point about “the old in the new” was when he wrote “Remixed media succeed when they show others something new; they fail when they are trite or derivative.”  Though this may be true that individuals get easily bored when something is boring and repetitive, isn’t most media repeated?  For example, aren’t romantic movies have a same general storyline structure?