Q: how?
A: the clue i found, to tell me this isn't true, was from the kurt cobain journals. which would be written somewhere around 1989 or maybe earlier. And he was saying essentially the same thing. "everything has already been done". And yet here i was, reading this at least 15 years later, knowing that many many new things had been done since he said that. So that was a pretty obvious giveaway that it wasn't true