#mer

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #american policy #cannot #competing #different

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#astute #audacious #change #committed #courageous

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#andy #andy warhol #art #art world #artists

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#anyone #art #artistic #busy #fashion

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior? ↗

— Camille Paglia

#compete #dies #does #her #junior

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #american lives #any #lives #more

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american writers #been #breakthroughs #continuity #did

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #attributed #been #bill #changes

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#american life #become #best #country #country music

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#american dream #becomes #dream #into #prison