(Please note the above title is from the paper edition–KSH).
“Our notion of authorship and originality was born, it flourished, and it may be waning,” …[University of Notre Dame anthropologist, Susan D.] Blum said.
She contends that undergraduates are less interested in cultivating a unique and authentic identity ”” as their 1960s counterparts were ”” than in trying on many different personas, which the Web enables with social networking.
“If you are not so worried about presenting yourself as absolutely unique, then it’s O.K. if you say other people’s words, it’s O.K. if you say things you don’t believe, it’s O.K. if you write papers you couldn’t care less about because they accomplish the task, which is turning something in and getting a grade,” Ms. Blum said, voicing student attitudes. “And it’s O.K. if you put words out there without getting any credit.”
Why am I not surprised by this? Forty years of narcissism has left it true believers in a condition of Self Alone virtually separated by the distant and secondary from the near and primary. Larry
Why am I not surprised by this? Forty years of narcissism has left it true believers in a condition of Self Alone virtually separated by the distant and secondary from the near and primary. Is there no shame in plagiarists today?
Thanks Kendall. I copied this to my blog.
Kidding! I don’t have a blog.