Posted on 03/08/2017 5:30:19 AM PST by poconopundit
I love Paglia! Thank you. Will read later.
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flr
The most interesting female intellectual since Ayn Rand.
Paglia is the true classical liberal of our time. For those that don’t know — I mean that as very high praise.
She is a rare escapee from the herd of independent thinkers.
HOORAY Camille. Common sense is fading fast. Watch OUT!...here comes another shiny object.
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She’s a feminist but has been a bastion of reasonableness on the transgender issue, and her voice unfortunately has moral weight with liberals on this because she’s a lesbian.
Camille Paglia: ‘Transgender Mania’ is a Symptom of West’s Cultural Decline, The Collapse of Cultures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMDVuHsVwKs
bkmk
One of the most influential thinkers of our time.
I learned of Camille Paglia back in the 90’s due to militant feminists with whom I’d occasionally exchanged less than friendly words in a bar accusing me of being a fan, they absolutely hated her. So, I looked her up. She’s a lesbian who doesn’t hate men and loves western culture. She actually does have an open mind. She’s capable of being one of the worst critics if not the worst critic, of the left. Very clear thinker, very astute observer. Make no mistake, she’s no conservative, but she’s an occasional ally and not really an enemy, neutral at worst.
Camille Paglia actually is sort of Randian but I suspect they’d have hated one another.
In the first page the author misidentifies a doctoral dissertation as a “thesis”, but we can let that pass. Overall a nice look back at Paglia’s time in the sun and an update on where she is now. Maybe a fiercely independent thinking lesbian isn’t to everyone’s taste, but as the article states one aspect of her appeal is the same as Trump’s, a willingness to stand up to political correctness and laugh in the face of attempted political correction. None of her opinions, even when you might disagree with them, are based on bull$hit. They’re reasoned and she’s willing to argue them without resorting to the usual leftist name calling.
Perhaps you're right! Kind of funny to think about.
I don't know much about Paglia's personality, but I think I know quite a bit about that of Ayn Rand, who was very judgmental on a personal level, and had basically zero skills of personality and diplomacy.
Perhaps you've heard the story, told by William F. Buckley, of meeting Ayn Rand at a dinner party back in the 1950s.
Buckley had by that time made quite a name for himself with his book God and Man at Yale, which was strongly and unambiguously conservative in its message.
According to WFB, after he was introduced to Ms. Rand, the first thing she said to him was "you are much to intelligent to believe in God."
If you do an FR keyword search, you’ll find a bunch of threads on Camille Paglia . Her anti-Hillary stuff is a hoot.
Ayn Rand got so close to the truth at times, but ended up just as deadening, stultifying, wooden and concrete grey as anything the Soviets created. She was a sworn enemy of the collectivist mindset in all its forms and was quite good at creating a manifesto but a novelist she was not. She never shook off the state-enforced atheism of the state she hated so much, which was a pity.
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