Kaiyla 🙂
]]>Yikes. That’s about all I can say about that.
Eric
]]>Yes, I am well aware of how angry and violated you felt because of that episode. For good reason, I might add. I didn’t blame you then for being pissed, and I don’t blame you now.
Eric
]]>They REALLY think that intellectual dishonesty and cheating is no big deal? Good grief. That really says an awful lot about the state of our society if that’s the case. And it’s not good news, either.
Eric
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re sick.
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]]>Well, friends, those days are gone forever and plagerism is only one small ‘gem’ in a wretched cultural crown that lauds ‘winners’ (by whatever means they won) and sees those who struggle to live moral lives as fools and losers. I am reminded of the line from the song in Camelot said by Mordred, Arthur’s bastard son, “It’s not the EARTH, the meek inherit, IT’S THE DIRT!” That is the culture today. We praise those who succeed even if they had to break the law and cheat to do so. In fact, the only REAL ‘sin’ is getting caught like Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi. Want to bet that the ‘records’ of men like Bonds will remain in the books and not even receive an ‘asterisk’ denoting the means by which they were achieved? How far a cry is this from the reaction of the American public to the Black Sox scandal?
I’m afraid that plagerism is only a symptom of a much greater ill, an ill that will not be cured as long as we as a culture are not ready to admit that we’re sick.
V. P.
]]>All I could think about was the years I’d spent thinking about the subject matter and formulating these intepretations based on all the obscure material I’d dug up over a couple decades. Then, this other writer takes a few days or weeks and simply regurgitates them and is hailed by some, I would assume, as a “great researcher” on this particular individual. As I said, it was worse than just someone using a few of my sentences. Ideas were stolen. Ideas are the intangible, the mental power inside of you that you develop only through self-effort.
It’s the worst theft of all. If there were indeed hangings for this sort of thing, I’d get a full-time job tying knots.
J.D.
]]>I’m glad you guys see it my way. This sort of thing really makes those of us who try to do this sort of work honestly look bad. It’s that whole guilt by association thing.
And Eamonn, you just reminded me of why I love Kipling so much. Thanks.
Eric
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