Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Monday, September 19, 2011

It's still not yours.


It's Not Plagiarism. In the Digital Age, It's 'Repurposing.'

The page header says 'Uncreative Writing' and they have a point.

There may be some genius in connecting the thoughts of others, but there's still no original thought from the 'author'. I'm not certain what it is, but it seems that there's some type of intellectual laziness holding sway in the world. What this seems to be is the joining up of the ubiquitous sound-bite that today's culture seems to hold in such esteem.


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