Agree. 2 other cents: this is not only in writings but also in our social and political opinions.
 
Modern communications tools such as TV, radio and now, Internet, force us to think fast and to conclude what is wrong or right quickly. Instead of taking longer time to analyze information, we tend to eat them without a second thought. We think we are superior than those who don't have access to the information. But actually, we are influenced easier by the media.
 
Peter Bi
 
Robert Kibler wrote:
 
> Edward Said, in his address to the MLA at the recent convention in Chicago, suggested that computers are making students lazy lightweights. Typewriters, and perhaps better yet, pen and ink, helped scholars extend their thoughts, and get it right the first time. If one can cut and paste, then the first time through can be rougher than rough.  And how many can direct their attention by an enquiry for extended periods? Where are the hungry students, a scholar asked in the Chronicle last year. Where are the enquiring minds? Without these, Pound and Pound studies really will do little more than clear the boundary of the 21st century.
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> It's interesting that even at the graduate level students still need to
> 'like' something in order to fully investigate it. Pound can be difficult to
> relate to, esp. if one is unfamiliar with anything the man wrote, yet the
> fact remains that anyone who wishes to seriously study 20th century poetry
> must deal with Pound, and enough of him so that the scope of what EP did for
> poetics is not glossed over. Such students are my peers, and I find it
> irritating that most haven't bothered to read much of Williams at all, never
> mind Pound. In fact, my undergraduate years were mostly spent in defense of
> W.C.Williams' work. Students just didn't 'like' him--one might as well have
> given us Keats to read, for the response would have been similar. I do wonder
> at times WHY this is. Perhaps it's a poor generalization on my part to
> insinuate that my peers, i.e., young writers/students, are a bit 'lazy' when
> it comes to studying the staples of modern poetics. I attended three
> universities in three states (all on the east coast) before finally settling
> down and obtaining a degree, and I have to say that most are either
> unfamiliar with Pound or simply don't give a hoot about him. And Williams, as
> I mentioned earlier, was often a subject of indifference, if not derision.
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> --CB