@guildencrantz0
The interviewer attempts to re-introduce sanity, stating that it seems unreasonable to claim America’s schools are attempting to impose the notion that all western societies are evil and that all other societies are perfectly good, and all she can do is ramble on about Greenblatt
@gommunisd
@MatthewSitman
She has the habit of simply speaking more quickly and more histrionically as a substitute for making coherent arguments. I read Sexual Personae back in 1992 and have always considered her a charlatan
@gommunisd
Paglia represents a toxic admixture of cocaine-driven overreading and pathologically self-absorbed underthinking. Love of language over thought, at every level. Provocation is key, not bc of its transgression alone, but bc provocation gives a specific power to your language.
@gommunisd
Not sure stupidit drives it. The demand for conservative demagoguery comes from people of all kinds of educational backgrounds.
I mean it depends on what you mean stupid, maybe needing an authority figure to harp on about the past being good is stupid.
@gommunisd
Paglia is a good intellectual, but as much as I like her thought process, and while I know she changed her mind, I find it disgusting that she actually said that sexual play with children is ok because "WELL, THE ANCIENT GREEKS DID IT"
@gommunisd
It's amazing I made it through all 45 seconds
But these are the only folks who get to be called public intellectuals in the US. Deeply mediocre reactionaries who get to be called "edgy" even when they are advocating we go back to the same old boring narratives we had before