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Just wanted to nit pick >No doubt the rise of the Internet – and today’s “cut and paste” culture -- has cheapened the value of “original” work. I think broad s
by burnished 6y ago
Just wanted to nit pick
>No doubt the rise of the Internet – and today’s “cut and paste” culture -- has cheapened the value of “original” work.
I think broad statements like these, that blame a shift in culture, do so out of a sense of nostalgia for an imaginary past. Isn't it more likely that the effect the author sees is simply part of the culture and that changing technology allowed for new expressions of it?
- msla 6y agoThere's a trick to it: Whenever an author says "No doubt" or similar, there are doubts the author can't answer. It's a rhetorical sleight-of-hand, something to get you looking over here while the hole in their logic slips quietly past over there. Do it deftly enough and you can get people to swallow camels in your article, even if they'd strain at gnats in an article written without such devices.