Re: Politics & Culture: Paglia Goes Green!

From: zeb haradon (zebharadon@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 18:26:12 MDT


>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.org
>Subject: Re: Politics & Culture: Paglia Goes Green!
>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:49:11 -0400
>
>Natasha Vita-More wrote:
> >
> > The recent article by Camille Paglia on Salon.com is titled "Of dubious
> > debates, kisses and divas"
> >
> > Pagalia, whose journalistic style is if full of history, mythology,
>cutlural
> > taboos, cross-gender insight and obstreperous political blasting, claims
> > that she will be voing Green in this years' election.
> >
> >
>http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/10/04/pop_and_politics/index.html
>
>Having read a bunch of her stuff, I don't see how she can honestly vote
>this
>way, unless she is taking my advice to campaign for Nader, vote for Bush.

I saw a documentary on Paglia and thought she had an interesting thought
proccess. I looked up some of her stuff on the web and didn't take long to
conclude that she is just plain fucked up.
Here's an example:
"As far as Ginsberg's pro-NAMBLA stand goes, this is one of the things I
most admire him for. I have repeatedly protested the lynch-mob hysteria that
dogs the issue of man-boy love. In "Sexual Personae," I argued that male
pedophilia is intricately intertwined with the cardinal moments of Western
civilization."
From:
http://www.salon.com/april97/columnists/paglia970415.html
I wouldn't be surprised if she dumped Nader tommorow to support David Duke
as president, then dumped him the next day to supprt Ronald McDonald.
Not to completely dismiss her. There are a lot of just-plain-fucked-up
people who end up stumbling upon a truth once in a while. And like I said,
her thought proccess is interesting.

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