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From: longnshort	1/6/2005 7:47:50 AM
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'Pseudo-sage' "If ever a single person was living proof that intelligence is a meaningless quality without modest common sense, it was Susan Sontag, who died last week. The reverential tone of the obituaries served to confirm that self-proclaimed intellectuals, no matter how deluded or preposterous, exert a strange, intimidating power over non-intellectuals. ... "[W]retched, credulous, self-hating American academia wanted to fawn on an intellectual whom popular culture could celebrate, and it chose Sontag and her vapid aphorisms. 'The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own'; or: 'What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death'; or: 'Sanity is a cosy lie.' ... "One has to have a certain academic status before one's pseudo-sage declarations come to be exalted as 'sayings.' " — Kevin Myers, writing on "I wish I had kicked Susan Sontag," Sunday in the London Telegraph

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