dennis scharnberg

Espousing “cultural relativism” is a common form of insincerity.

Ambrose Glendenning,  The Crumbling Modern Buildings.

Their critique of the culture is itself a manifestation of the frivolity of that culture.

Hans Baldung-Grien,  Postmodernist Moments.

Culture:  a set of instructions concerning what to notice and what not to notice.

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.

The world I dwell in is one in which argument can gain no foothold.  It is all about sentiment, about strategies of feeling.

P. J. Cahoon,  The History of Crime.

We have a culture.  That does not mean that we know how to design a culture.

Nigel Swoone,  Old Theories of Time.

Regardless of subject, digital photos always end up looking like ads.

Roger Hedgecook,  Stolen and Sold for Parts.

What is most difficult?  To shake oneself free from something one has read.

Clifford O. Mounce,  A Portable Darkness.

Opinion:  a waste of everyone’s time.

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.

Even at its best—and I am at a loss for examples—Criticism is a con game.

Daniel Brasso,  The Infinite Regress.

Are you sleeping, or just feigning sleep?

Gaddis Gann,  Essays on the Pre-Socratics.