Nice projection on your forehead, lady

Salon's recent interview with the abysmal Camille Paglia actually gave us a pretty good encapsulation of its subject in the subhed:

("what a phony!") ... ("the hair!") ... ("a monster") ... "delusional narcissist" ...

Camille Paglia is a classic product, like Andrew Sullivan, of the cult of narcissism. Why anyone takes either of them the least seriously is beyond me. It's one thing to be interesting because you're contrarian; but narcissists are contrarian because it's interesting. There's a layer of manipulativeness to the very structure of their thought -- not to mention an utter vacuousness of content -- that makes their opinions congenitally meaningless.

Bleah.