In the pp. of The NYT. We aren't even going to provide an example. You're on your own here, sex-averse middle-class sheep!
Quick note to any who were made aware of this earlier at that Sadly, No! site: If you were awake before noon or whenever to see Paglia abused there, YOU are one of the bourgeois pigs she's talking about. Up before noon on Sunday? You sex lives are over already, oinkers!
Only the diffuse New Age movement, inspired by nature-keyed Asian practices, has preserved the radical vision of the modern sexual revolution. But concrete power resides in America’s careerist technocracy, for which the elite schools, with their ideological view of gender as a social construct, are feeder cells.
ReplyDeleteI got out of the boat, examined that one feces-despoiled mango, and ran back screaming.
NEVER GET OUT OF THE BOAT!
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ReplyDeleteThat's one of the paragraphs we considered pulling before we fled in fear & disgust.
There must be something about someone's thunder being stolen here, but it's Sunday & we aren't working on it.
New Age movement, inspired by nature-keyed Asian practices
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All these words she keeps using, do any of them mean what she thinks they mean?
I cling to my theory that "Paglia" is a symbol-manipulating text generation program, written to imitate Brett Easton Ellis' prose style from ~1990 (where brandnames take the place of imagery as a statement about the death of affect and the obsolescence of meaning).
From Our Pseudo-Po-Mo Ed.:
ReplyDeleteFeeder cells, like Rep. Gohmert FEARS are at work even now.
"Diffuse movement:" Best treated w/ Pepto-Bismol® or Imodium®.
Brand names that kill our affect & convince us there never was meaning:
sexy pop chicks like Deborah Harry, Belinda Carlisle, Pat Benatar, and a charmingly ripe Madonna. Late Madonna, in contrast, went bourgeois and turned scrawny. Madonna’s dance-track acolyte, Lady Gaga, with her compulsive overkill, is a high-concept fabrication without an ounce of genuine eroticism.
I know what "feeder cells" are from hanging out with gene-tech micro-bio types. But I cannot use that meaning to make any sense of Paglia's elite-school metaphor. Perhaps it is a mistake to look for sense, since she is concerned only with the effect and she achieves that by using the formal structure of a metaphor, without needing to care whether the machinery actually works.
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