[Leica] Sontag and Doug Sharp

[bdcolen at MIT.EDU (B D Colen)]

As maddening as I found Susan Sontag, I will suggest, Doug, that she was 
hardly
a flash in the pan celebrity, as you seem to suggest.

Will she be remembered as a social critic on a par with Steinbeck? I would
suggest that she will be remembered as a social critic, by people who are 
aware
that there are social critics, long after Steinbeck is forgotten, or is a 
mere
astrik in discussions of the Great Depression.

Will she be remembered as a social philosopher on a par with Karl Marx? Of
course not - she did not provide the philosophical underpinnings for a 
movement
that was responsible for the deaths of literally hundreds of millions of 
human
beings around the Globe. ;-)

Love her or hate her, she was brilliant, and she wrote and said a number of
things that will live on long past the time when every damn one of us on this
list will be long forgotten.

B. D.