• Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

  Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic 1947-
  

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1. personality
2. aesthetics
3. mysticism
4. darwinian
5. rousseau
6. things

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Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau. by : Camille Paglia

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