big in europe: 2010

Friday, December 31, 2010

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piggeldy

so far, words have not been my strong suit.. the pictures or whatever should preferably be speaking for themselves.. though there have been moments, i've been feeling almost obliged to pull out my mighty.. hmm.. imaginary pen, reluctance usually gets the best of me.. again and again.. not to set any sort of closing to this fading year, but rather as a signal for the posts to come, i am overcoming my natural shyness and reaccounting a wonderful work i've stumbled upon a few days ago.. along the lines of the already mentioned credo of letting pictures stand on their own, i'm merely translating the depicted dialog..

frederick

   in this scene, the two brothers piggeldy and frederick, both beloved characters of a german tv-cartoon series, are discussing a current political event..
   as usual (this is somewhat the clou of their purposefully educational program), piggeldy, the younger piglet (and to be blunt, a rather illiterate and simplistic creature), expresses his general lack of understanding of any wordly matter whatsoever through a very concise and relevant question, in this case "yo, frederick!" and then, in a sort of casual manner, "what is democracy?"
   being the lethargic piglet, or rather the lethargic boar for that matter, that frederick is (and all over the world is known to be), he shows no sign of bashfulness and answers his younger sibling straightforwardly "democracy is the governance of a 52 % majority over a 48 % minority, piggeldy."
   any further questions or arguments are missing (or obsolete since no one expects piggeldy to dish out a witty comeback), but one may doubt if the endearing but dull young piglet detected the cynicism (and frustration) the apparently voting frederick has expressed in his very true answer..