Comments on: At the German Aphorism Conference

By: lori ellison

lori ellison — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:02:59 +0000

How many women spoke and performed rather than sat in the audience and applauded by the way? I have had many arguments lately in the Art World lately by the way about Saint simon’s original idea of the avant-garde, in trying to concieve of the French Revolution and a society afterwards he said the artists (meaning writers mostly) and scientists (including academics in soft sciences presumably) would be the advance guard for society. I have stated that the Democratic primaries here with Clinton and Obama are the new avant-garde, and congratulations Germany for having Angela Merkel, but as I stated above its just one step. Political representation, in Saint Simonian terms, has perhaps been the only progressive force we can still try to hope for, however my aphorisms I prefer the most are political, and the sense they make is to hopefully sting a little awareness into this climate blackened with a cloud of gnats in the form of slogans sound bytes memes and received ideas of all kinds, and a lot of the aphoristic activity here as well makes that kind of sense as well, think of them as little armed mosquitos aimed into the great gnat cloud of niggling at people”s confused verbage (thank you Sarah Palin for that neologism) and hope they hit home somewhere..

By: lori ellison

lori ellison — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:18:30 +0000

And bankers, financiers and stock marketeers everywhere have to prove themselves human much less world citizens anywhere at the moment.

By: lori ellison

lori ellison — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:17:13 +0000

This last part reminded me of working Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Paris where businessmen were predicting the EEC as the rightful return of Europe to the conter of world power, while worrying about English becoming the de facto lingua franca and Germany overlording it economically over the rest of the EEC. I am quite happy to have returned to the US where we have our first Hawaiian president with African and muslim heritage, even if our de facto language is also English and there are more german descendants than British Isles ones here on this famous European land grab. At least we hyphenate our populace, Chinese -American and so on – hope you get around to having German-Turks or French-Moroccans or British-Pakistanis, in government, one day.

By: Candadai Tirumalai

Candadai Tirumalai — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:31:42 +0000

Aphorisms and Medicine. Hippocrates began it all: “Life is short, Art long….”

By: Leonid Sukhorukov

Leonid Sukhorukov — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:31:53 +0000

* It’s not enough to get into history, you also have to get out alive. Leonid S. Sukhorukov