"The modern world romanticizes finding yourself, your style, your type, etc. This “quest” is even glorified to the point that you would feel compelled to lie about what is “you” all the time, just so you could gain a foothold in society, and not be considered a pushover since all your peers have “personalities” and “styles” early, apparently."

We're not talking about the Jungian Self are we? Or is it the idea of self that Nietzsche proposes to the dwarf?

The description in the article sounds meager and flat. The post title sports unpleasant taste in comparison.

and it might be valid, but it doesn't make sense in the sahara/mars desert case.

We might have theories working in some sort of simulation that would help us fix stuff, but technology hasn't caught up yet and innovation promises new viewpoints that open room for advancement towards testing and implementation of aforementioned theories.

We don't have that much control over where these innovative sparks of creation spawn and if a field is stale people search for inspiration elsewhere.

The reason for stealing the page matters here. If you want to plant a tree it is not a good idea to steal the snow instead of the dirt underneath it to plant it.