tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19586719.post7398570571345234007..comments2023-09-24T06:37:17.587-07:00Comments on The Visual Linguist: Diversity in VisualsNeil Cohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03705933006220475644noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19586719.post-64177585695679026302008-08-20T10:06:00.000-07:002008-08-20T10:06:00.000-07:00But, what does really count for us? Chinese landsc...But, what does really count for us? Chinese landscape, japanese writing, Hopi pottery, New-Ireland sculpture? Is any of this taught at many german high schools?<BR/>The music of feudal courts, by a few white men in fewer european countries still is the serious music. In painting less than 20 top people in Italy, Germany and the Netherlands defined art.<BR/>European rule got even easier with modernism: Impressionism had 10 good years, Cubism and Expressionism and Abstract Expresssionism 3 each, Marcel Duchamp needed no time at all to still rule the avant garde. <BR/>And why has a utterly stupid word like globilization the power of a weed?<BR/>The great idea of universal human rights, the silly utopia of a United Nations, useless ideals like esperanto, Chomsky who needs only English to rule language an und für sich, human thinking somehow can`t be cured of universal power phantasiesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com