I'll have to look that word pastiche up, but I agree on what you say here, PAul :)

edited to add: A pastiche is a literary or other artistic genre that is a "hodge-podge" or an imitation.

and also agree with this ... the hodge podge part.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854