Just figured it out

I think I have just figured out a real philosophy of those who feel that they can "evolve" their art from the source without actually knowing the source.

Take for example this pour soul on youtube (I'll leave the names out). He was told that his goju ryu kata did not look like...nay even resemble an actual version of the kata done on Okinawa.

His response was that the art has been evolving for centuries, his version of it is just a natural evolution of it. But the fact remains, he says he is doing Goju Ryu, but it looks nothing like Goju Ryu, yet he thinks he is doing Goju Ryu.

Anyway, I'm rambling, but it got me thinking. What if these guys really were the evolution of it. Imagine, all of the Okinawa masters die right now. Anyone left with any knowledge of traditional Budo dies, right now. All that is left are these idiots. What would they think about the only source for actual history and proper technique being dead. Would they enjoy being the authority or would they lose sleep at night knowing that what they teach is not the real thing and they now have a bit of guilt as representing the only semblance of tradition in human existence.

I truly think that these idiots who are just too egotistical to change styles or put on a white belt again secretly sit at home watching Higaonna or Toguchi or Chinen wishing they could be them and know what they know. But, they realize that the subservience, commitment, and starting over is more than their egos will let them do. They already have high ranks, fancy titles, a dojo with loyal students, and the admiration and support of those other idiots in their own clique who all shower each other with plaques, awards, hall of fame nominations, seminar appearances, and such. I think that they NEED the traditional Sensei and the original way to do kata and train in order to bring what they do a sense of order.

Because...if you take away the root art, that which their art is of but a shadow is ridiculous. Its awful to look at, it has lost all of the meaning of even doing a naha te style kata, and the applications become impractical because they were not based on the root techniques to begin with. It is the shell of the art. But nothing is inside. Why have peanuts in a shell if there is no peanut.