‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation’, sniffed the anti-conformist Oscar Wilde. Today we too prize individuality and originality almost above everything else. Mark Earls explores the lie of originality in all its aspects and show the value of ‘social learning’ (copying, to you and me) to help us put unoriginality back in its rightful place. And of course most of what he says will be other people’s ideas. Video by The School of Life