Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana. - Camille Paglia

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.

[T]here’s a lot to be said for celibacy, for the concentration of your mental and physical energy.

Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.