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In order for "appropriation" to occur, a property must exist. For this, it must be legible by an authority. Writing, by definition, is legible. Music and dance are much less so. A lot of cultural traits and patterns escape legibility altogether and move freely. It is all so arbitrary.

To give you James C. Scott's example: there were empires of rice and grains but not potatoes. The bailiff could read a grain but not a potato harvest.

More critically, creation is seldom a solitary process. The coffee house was a safe place where ideas were jointly developed. Appropriating the result is primitive accumulation - aka known as theft.

One tires of these childish games: together it is more fun - end of story.

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