Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

Even when patriotic historians become angry, the history of many countries is completely lacking in interest. Escolios a un Texto Implícito:...

Cultural rhetoric today replaces patriotic rhetoric, in the effusive expectorations of fools. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. ...

An obscurantist canon of the old metropolitan chapter of Santa Fe, a brusque church lady from Bogotá, an uncouth cattle rancher from the sav...

Collective pretentiousness comes to be more revolting than individual pretentiousness. Patriotism should be mute. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...

That patriotism which is not a carnal adhesion to specific landscapes, is rhetoric designed by semi-educated men to spur the illiterate on t...

A “patriot,” in democracies, is someone who lives from the State; an “egoist,” someone from whom the State lives. Escolios a un Texto Implíc...