Random Noodling: Haiku Sticky #315

July 21, 2015

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Memory time: the luncheonette soda fountain and the frosty glass taken from the deep freeze. Lime rickeys or root beer.

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

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July 21, 2015

Haiku Sticky #315

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