Random Noodling: Haiku Sticky #186

January 29, 2013

Haiku Sticky #186

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Tara @ A Teaching LifeJanuary 31, 2013 at 11:53 PM
It's freezing here in New Jersey too...but to cat in sight for warmth!
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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

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January 29, 2013

Haiku Sticky #186

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