22 February 2012

DAY NINETY SEVEN POST TWO

as i'm sure my dedicated readers have figured out, it's actually day ninety seven. i'd post awesome pictures, but unfortunately, looking up "awesome pictures" on google actually results in what i would call 'not-awesome' pictures. a few misogynist ones tho!

on the plus side, a world famous photographer who graced the front page of radikal last sunday is in our office today and i may be lucky enough to get to eat some pizza with her. or her eat a salad and me a pizza. and no salad station for her because i'm morally opposed to their idiot slimy delivery guy who keeps ripping me off for a few lira every time he delivers. hatehatehate.

interesting fact about the term idiot:
A dunce is an idiot who is specifically incapable of learning. An idiot differs from a fool (who is unwise) and an ignoramus (who is uneducated/an ignorant), neither of which refers to someone with low intelligence.
so the word idiot actually comes from the same word for an individual. really interesting etymology - being concerned with oneself rather than the community, which was the 'state of nature' human, changed only through education. but wouldn't that make the idiot really an ignoramus?

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