I think it really is true that children's brains are being reshaped. So I tried to write a book where people would just sort of stare at an image for a certain length of time. And yes, what you mention about the miniaturization of image is terrible. It was raised in the 1950s when Hollywood was competing with television by doing something which television couldn't do. The young people have no sense, whatever, of the expansive, of the big gesture.
Camille Paglia joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on the brilliance of Bowie, lamb vindaloo, her lifestyle of observation, why writers need real jobs, Star Wars, Harold Bloom, Amelia Earhart, Edmund Spenser, Brazil, why she is most definitely not a cultural conservative, and much more.
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