Camille Paglia Quote
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.
p. 37 - Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)