Who's doing it?

I have discovered recently that most often what I call ‘lack of inspiration/motivation’ or plain old ‘block’ is a fear for lack of originality.
My thoughts take me to weird and wonderful places but then I come back down feeling that most of these thoughts must have occurred to someone else too, and what’s so profound about mine? More importantly what’s new? I wonder if this is because I spend more time reading others’ thoughts? But then, when I read good work by others I wonder why I don’t mark them down for repeatedness (if it’s punishment enough, I tend to flip a page if THE goes on and on about RAE and funding).
So I have decided (naively I suspect and hope) that instead of waiting for big original ideas, I should just go ahead and talk of the same old boring things that human kind has been banging on since probably Noam Chomsky came up with the new syntax theory. LET’S change a few words to the left or sometimes to the right of the first original sentence and just go on pretending. You know by now where I am going with this one? Yes to the neighbourhood DIY store.
Is it just me or plain old stupidity that is so common that we can’t see it like the smog? Add a bit of a catchy jingle and an inclusive word to the world’s most popular Swoosh tag line and what do you get? Still PLAGIARISM darlings. Well now you know why this blog takes such a while to get updated.