The Next Generation
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010Laura Miller at Salon covers the German teen plagiarism posturing.
Kids these days, this Cassandra-ish line of reasoning goes, have unfathomably different values, and their elders had better come to terms with this because children are, after all, the future. You can’t tell them anything! It’s as if people under 25 have become the equivalent of an isolated Amazonian tribe who can’t justly be expected to grasp our first-world prohibitions against polygamy or cannibalism—despite the fact that they’ve grown up in our very midst.




