Paglia, part 2 - or why she's my favorite liberal, feminist, lesbian, atheist writer. Link
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Paglia, part 2 - or why she's my favorite liberal, feminist, lesbian, atheist writer. Link
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weso1 (08-01-2015)
I really couldn't care less. my girlfriend is catholic. yipee.
I'm a millennial, I suppose. I like [MENTION=68]BedellBrave[/MENTION], but have never liked Paglia. She may be considered a liberal, but I see her as quite derivate of a certain kind of intellectual conservatism (somewhat spearheaded and largely fostered by Leo Strauss) which happened to be very en vogue in certain circles at my alma mater.
I'm also an atheist that does his damnedest not to sneer at religion (though Scientology challenges that impulse), likewise feeling it a product of adolescent petulance in the face of other people's responses to tough metaphysical questions (or, to put it in terms of Brideshead Revisted, I resist my baser Charles Ryder impulses).
But that's one of the principal reasons I don't like Paglia: she's as guilty of sneering smugness as those she derides for being smug or snide.
For what it's worth, I also think she couldn't be more wrong regarding Jon Stewart.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
zitothebrave (07-30-2015)
Camille Paglia is mostly interested in shouting in the general direction of whoever will halfheartedly listen about the keenness of Camille Paglia.
Runnin (07-31-2015), zitothebrave (07-30-2015)
Companies really believe in this whole millenials "thing". For promotion to senior associate at PwC they sent us terrenea resort for a week and a lot of the discussion is how to incorporate millenials into the workforce and how our values are changing. I think the next 20 years is going to be very interesting for corporate america.
Natural Immunity Croc
Ha! This is fun. Keep it up.
"I think Stewart’s show demonstrated the decline and vacuity of contemporary comedy. I cannot stand that smug, snarky, superior tone. I hated the fact that young people were getting their news through that filter of sophomoric snark. Comedy, to me, is one of the major modern genres, and the big influences on my generation were Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl. Then Joan Rivers had an enormous impact on me–she’s one of my major role models. It’s the old caustic, confrontational style of Jewish comedy. It was Jewish comedians who turned stand-up from the old gag-meister shtick of vaudeville into a biting analysis of current social issues, and they really pushed the envelope. Lenny Bruce used stand-up to produce gasps and silence from the audience. And that’s my standard–a comedy of personal risk. And by that standard, I’m sorry, but Jon Stewart is not a major figure. He’s certainly a highly successful T.V. personality, but I think he has debased political discourse. I find nothing incisive in his work. As for his influence, if he helped produce the hackneyed polarization of moral liberals versus evil conservatives, then he’s partly at fault for the political stalemate in the United States."
goldfly (07-31-2015)
Wow, just what this forum needs. Another discussion over what news sources are reliable and which ones aren't.
I am more concerned over the accuracy of the content than who delivers the content
and if they make me laugh in the process, so be it.
Some of the laughs generated by Stewert are funny. Not ha-ha funny