modernism

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 16:24:28 CST 2007


On Nov 16, 2007 4:12 PM, Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I think we are now entering into a Neo-modern period
>
> I take your (excellent) points, but please tell me you at least smiled as you wrote this. (Which would have no bearing on its merits as a prediction of what people will be calling the Next Big Thing).
> [snip]
> So, poised in doubt and contradiction and amibiguity, I'm a thoroughly modern Modernist.  And since that's an ironic, self-referential and thoroughly "meta" perspective drawing attention to the possibility of *no* fixed point outside this maze of words, I'm also post- as post- can be.
>
> And Pugnax says it looks good on me.

Sure, we're ALL post-(probably post-post) modern.  Can't help but be.
No sane person is a True-Believer these days (Bush did a good job of
making that ultra-true).  But does that make me smile?  That and a lot
of sneering, too.

In such a vein of thought, check out these posters over at HuffPost:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/a-huffpost-project-poste_b_72899.html

http://assets.huffingtonpost.com/posters/poster2.html

http://assets.huffingtonpost.com/posters/poster1.html

http://assets.huffingtonpost.com/posters/poster3.html

David Morris

David Morris



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