Old Weird Ward
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Thursday, December 30, 2004
- - - - - Susan Sontag - - - - -
Susan Sontag died a couple of days ago, at 71. A leading "intellectual", "brilliant essayist", and "feminist".
Below is her most illuminating quote:
"the truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself."
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Hmm...I always remembered that quote when I saw something of hers in a newspaper or magazine, or one of her books on a shelf in the library.
She lived in some comfort in New York City, and was a "celebrity" based on that quote. She had a clacking clique of sycophants who hung on every word she spoke.
And, from the quote above, and considering where she lived (New York City, remember?), it's quite obvious to me that she hated herself and her country and the entire civilization which she counted on to sustain and validate her life and style. She was also a leading proponent of the Blame America First crowd.
Did you you notice that she put Marx in the category of "redeeming" features of the "white race"?
I got news for youse: I read Das Kapital when I was nineteen. It actually took me three tries to get through that piece of crap - and it never did make any sense at all.
If I remember rightly, it was some Russian who called people like Sontag "useful idiots", 'way back in the middle of the Cold War.
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