I wish I had kicked Susan Sontag

UK Telegraph ^ | 1-5-05 | Kevin Myers

[Colosis]

Kevin Myers at his best.

[David Isaac]

Few can wield the dagger so effectively and humorously.

[KevinB]

I don't think he liked her. (Thank heavens for dictionary.com.)

[Qwinn]

She wasn't a Marxist? I'd argue otherwise.

Qwinn

[Colosis]

I don't think he liked her.

Strange...I got that feeling as well 8^)

[The G Man]

He'd better take a number.

[Bon mots]

She hated white people, the west, America and business. Yet she chose to spend her life in cafes like Elaine's where only rich white people go, in a town that was built by and for business and little else.

You would think that she would have practiced what she preached and spent her time with swarthy third worlders in the developing world.

Limousine liberalism at its worst.

[snarks_when_bored]

A satisfyingly sarcastic sayonara to Susie Sontag's soporific and sophomoric sonorities.

[10mm]

My real mistake was not radioing her co-ordinates to the Serb artillery, reporting that they marked the location of Bosnian heavy armour. My own life would have been a cheap price to pay.

Coffee, meet keyboard.

[OpusatFR]

She reminds me, in fact a lot of the "intellectuals" remind me of oppositional two-year olds.

[GeronL]

She isn't the only one who needs a swift kick to the Depends

[Gorzaloon]

I don't think he liked her.

At least he did not suggest a couple of quart cans of Foster's followed by a visit to the grave site.

[wolfpat]

We can all do this kind of poser-cleverness, but we'll never find our way into any dictionaries of quotation because one has to have a certain academic status before one's pseudo-sage declarations come to be exalted as "sayings"

I've done this. I was trying to teach someone the skill of critical thinking. I had her head swimming with self-contradictions. At the end of it, I asked her what I'd said, and then admitted I'd said absolutely nothing.

[Stoat]

Delightful! Thanks very much for posting.
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[Stoat]

Another example of someone who is regarded as an 'intellectual' but in reality is as dumb as a post, as evidenced by his unshakable embrace of numerous ideas that have been endlessly disproven: Noam Chomsky.

[Savage Beast]

"Beneath the veneer of apparent profundity...there is usually a deep well of meaninglessness..."

Well said, Kevin.

The same is true of the highly visible, self-proclaimed intellectual sophisticates who dominate the American Left, notably television "personalities", so-called "journalists", "academicians", and denizens of the "salons" of the Leftist enclaves.

Observation of these people reveals both limited intellect, generally camouflaged by "credentials", and lack of sophistication, generally camouflaged by pretense.

The November 2, 2004, election and the campaign leading to it were a glaring expose of the meaninglessness beneath the veneer of profundity that is the quintessence of the American Left and its emetic, if vacuous, spokespersons.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

I about fell out of my chair when I read that line. Truly brilliant!

[Savage Beast]

"Good health is the passing delusion of the doomed."

Well, actually, the last one is mine.

It's the only one that's any good.

[TontoKowalski]

Who is this Mr. Myers? I confess I've never read his work before, but I certainly hope to fix that.

This is biting, and I agree with it, but the real appeal is how well written it is. I enjoy good writing.

[Savage Beast]

"...someone who is regarded as an 'intellectual' but in reality is as dumb as a post"

The world of the glitterati is rife with them.