Detritus FAQ:Conceptual Questions about Detritus:
Why do you do this?
We encourage people to pick up pieces of our popular culture and reuse them. That's our purpose. Culture, at least the most interesting (to us) incarnations of it, is continually re-made out of older culture. Inspiration, influence, imitation, it all melts together to make something new, which in turns gets re-used again.

Two very important recent developments make this even more important than it's been for the last few millenia: First, modern technology allows easy reproduction of cultural artifacts, making it all the more neccesary that social attitudes adjust to match. And second, the rise of capitalism and corporate power has created an environment where intellectual property law constricts the healthy growth of culture and excercise of individual creativity. This site is a rallying point against this negative force.
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