Christian Kalweit - The ecstasy of influence

Jonathan Lethem's main point of the article is that a society which communicates with one another, sharing individual thoughts and information, will only result in benefiting the group as a whole. By providing information to the public by any form, it can serve to help an unlimited amount of people. The argument of the article is that copy writing has gone to the extreme, to the point where people can not take full advantage of what is being provided to them. Lethem's motive for writing the article is the disgust and annoyance that has developed inside of him directed towards copy writing and the intense focus on plagiarism in today's society.