tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post2506451097285024736..comments2024-03-21T01:01:49.406-04:00Comments on The Phantom Soapbox: Disagreeing with Camile Paglia.The Phantomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10159748429049446398noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-22300699646077911702012-10-07T23:26:28.835-04:002012-10-07T23:26:28.835-04:00So you didn't read Sex, Art and American Cultu...So you didn't read <i>Sex, Art and American Culture</i> either I'm guessing. <br /><br />She's my favorite rightist-on-the-left.Black Mambahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930086415112513028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-47166284210796175902012-10-07T21:41:10.791-04:002012-10-07T21:41:10.791-04:00Black Mamba:
Paglia had the benefit of a real cla...Black Mamba:<br /><br />Paglia had the benefit of a <i>real</i> classical education, as well as postgraduate training as a classicist. When she's covering that ground, she's as good as Brietbart said.<br /><br />The problems you and Phantom mention come in when her soixant-huitard politics say "yes" while her classical education says "no, and you know better". WiFi Lunchbox Guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-52724059643182892502012-10-07T14:55:35.919-04:002012-10-07T14:55:35.919-04:00WiFi, I read the article you mentioned. I concur, ...WiFi, I read the article you mentioned. I concur, that's a lot of fuss over two ancient commie perverts.The Phantomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10159748429049446398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-65306766878197207802012-10-07T14:33:51.597-04:002012-10-07T14:33:51.597-04:00Hi Mamba! ~:D
Yes you did overpost about five ti...Hi Mamba! ~:D<br /><br />Yes you did overpost about five times, I took those out. I was in the shower, so listening to all those extras coming in on the Blackberry was funny as hell. Bwaha!<br /><br />The reason you don't get an acknowledgement when you post is that I have comment moderation enabled after the first 24 hours. This is to keep the spambots and trolls at bay. Some of them seem to think its funny to post obscene comments to things I put up two years ago, so now I can just delete them.<br /><br />If you have a Google account it will just let you post, but perhaps I will look into Disqus. I kinda hated it when Blazing Catfur started using it, but maybe I'm just doing it wrong.<br /><br />Anyway. <br /><br />I have not to the best of my knowledge read anything with "Sexual" anywhere in the title in my entire life. So no. Camile Paglia's columns however I do read whenever she pops up, because she's extremely well read and I enjoy catching her out occasionally.<br /><br />Because I'm just a bastard that way. :)<br /><br />She seems to me one of those amazingly intelligent people who get most things right, but have a few beliefs they just refuse to examine. Because she lives in the Ivory Tower some of those unexamined beliefs lead to blindness about her chosen party. <br /><br />Me, I just point at the gas crisis in California this week and point out that it is SELF INFLICTED, and furthermore her guys are the ones who did it. With her help.<br /><br />Her issues with visual art are the same. Visual art sucks for all the reasons she said, for sure, but she can't seem to -own- it, you know? Kind of like a teenager standing beside a wrecked car, trying to blame other cars on the road for making him crash while he was street racing.The Phantomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10159748429049446398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-29014487127370112372012-10-07T14:06:45.259-04:002012-10-07T14:06:45.259-04:00So did I overpost like 8 times (if I did I apologi...So did I overpost like 8 times (if I did I apologize), or did none work? I'm not <i>that</i> drunk yet. You see what I mean when I say I hate this "prove you're not a robot" shit.<br /><br />Ach.Black Mambahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930086415112513028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-75863712002929636242012-10-07T13:57:06.528-04:002012-10-07T13:57:06.528-04:00LIntePhantom - have I ever mentioned how much I ha...LIntePhantom - have I ever mentioned how much I hate this impossible commenting system you have going? I just made a comment and it vanished, dammit. Because I was trying to calibrate it just so. Dammit.<br /><br />And these "prove you're not a robot" things are so legible. Not!<br /><br />Well, I hate nags, so I won't mention it again. May my mute disapproval be a continuous thorn in your side.<br /><br />Okay. I was wondering - have you ever read <i>"Sexual Personae"</i>? I don't know what you think about Andrew Breitbart, but I was quite surprised and chuffed when I learned a few weeks ago that he'd said that reading that book showed him how inadequate his university "education" had been.<br /><br />Paglia was very formative for me. She's wrong half the time at least on pop-culture stuff - trying to block out the fact that she voted for Barack - but I love her.<br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving.Black Mambanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15888307.post-75013196949597639522012-10-06T13:53:47.124-04:002012-10-06T13:53:47.124-04:00Funny, there's an article in the Star today ab...Funny, there's an article in the Star today about <a href="http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/article/1266677--frida-kahlo-and-diego-rivera-exhibit-to-come-to-the-art-gallery-of-ontario" rel="nofollow">Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera</a>. <br />The writer admits through clenched teeth that Rivera's art was little more than Chipotle Socialist Realism. Not admitted, was Kahlo's narcissistic portraits are perfect for the kind of people (like Paglia) who voted for Obama simply for the leg tingles.<br /><br />As for Paglia, her comments on industrial design are themselves an admission that "approved" 20th Century art as a whole has been written off by the culture.WiFi Lunchbox Guynoreply@blogger.com