David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.