To me, anyway. Camille Paglia is pro-Obama and "pro-choice", so she and I aren't on the same team, but she's honest to a degree that no other partisan I ever read is, left or right. She sidesteps nothing, calls a spade a spade, and doesn't heistate to criticize her own. I don't think I've ever seen anything quite like it from a political/social commentator. She spent at least part of her childhood growing up on a dairy farm in Oxford.
The comments are revealing. No criticism of substance, just lots of ad hominem attacks.
7 comments:
"One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice."
Damn. Good stuff.
She clearly doesn't understand the true nature of making fun of Sarah Palin. It's probably because her last name starts with the same two letters.
Spongy, ya gotta unnerstand.
Paglia grew up in Chenango County.
On a farm.
And went to public schools.
There is just no way she could have the _sophistication_ required to "understand the true nature of making fun of Sarah Palin."
Well, I wouldn't call making fun of someone sophisticated, but I guess that depends on how you go about it.
I didn't call making fun of someone sophisticated. Sophistication descibes the person, not the action. Palin was made fun of by the sophisticated, precisely because she was viewed as a rube.
Oh, I thought you were being sarcastic.
But I don't think all sophisticated people make fun of Sarah Palin, and probably many not-so-sophisticated people make fun of Sarah Palin.
Furthermore, not all of those people understand the true nature of making fun of Sarah Palin, but that's just me trying to be too sophisticated.
Spongy, as your old man would say, "Why, if I was half as sophisticated as you..."
Murphymas is Jan 3. Here. Don't be too sophisticated to miss it.
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