Random Noodling: Happy Haiga Day!

May 15, 2011

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Image courtesy Library of Congress.
Originally published in Notes from the Gean, volume 2, issue 4, March 2011.

Interesting Idea

I don’t use the term as an insult — the American idiot. I mean it in a precise way, as I try to remind people. For the Greeks, "idiot" carried a precise and special meaning. The person who was only interested in private life, private gain, private advantage. Who had no conception of a public good, common wealth, shared interest. To the Greeks, the pioneers of democracy, the creators of the demos, such a person was the most contemptible of all. Because even the Greeks seemed to understand: you can’t make a functioning democracy out of...idiots.

~ umair haque

Featuring cherita!

May 15, 2011

Happy Haiga Day!

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