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to amuse, to divert, or even, for that matter, to be merely interesting”, and by saying that, he suggests that professors are forced to be entertaining, “Because that’s what works”. He says, “I think that many of [my students] have imbibed their sense of self from consumer culture and in general from the tube in particular.”
This attitude, he suggests, has led to a lack of passion. He also says, his generation is partly to blame for “letting the counterculture search for pleasure devolve into a quest for commodities”(On the use of a liberal education). Edmundson explains how the university he works at is changing its face to attract more students in a consumer society. The college admissions process has become a marketing campaign to attract as many people to the place as possible. It has also affected the policy of the individual departments to be more attractive to their consumer crowd. Things like more lax grading and a widening choice of professors are a couple examples ...

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his students. TV cool has invaded the campus and it is hindering students from showing any emotion or acting fervently for or against anything. “Most of my students are desperate to blend in, look right, not to make a spectacle of themselves.” So, who is to blame for this? He says, however “…they didn’t create the present culture of consumption.” He partly blames his generation. It seems like wants the reader possibly his students) to know that he doesn’t think that the students at the time of this writing are having this consumerist attitude on purpose or just being lazy. He wants his readers to know that it was his generation turned these kids into people who are afraid to confront and ...

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