Do Inspirational Bromides Qualify as Plagiarism ?
Recently there has been a lot in the news about plagiarism and when I looked at the sources of all the news items, it occurred to me that if banal common phrases that have been commonly used for decades and decades by motivational speakers and even in many graduation speeches is plagiarism, then we are as a people in big trouble.
When inspirational bromides are phrased together, the similarities in many speeches by many motivational speakers, politicians, teachers, students and yes even religious leaders all could come into question. If who said it first or who first put the word strings together into phrases matters, then the message can not really resonate because we are not hearing the real message but more likely the string of words and the order they have been said.
Have we as a people become so jaded that inspirational bromides or even full messages need to be dissected or cast in the light of inspection of where they were said or by whom they were first written.
To me this is the saddest statement of a free nation that leads the way in the world to inspire all of humanity for an enriched life experience .
And how all this has more recently been equated to those that cut and paste other people's articles or blog posts truly escapes me.
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