Day 1,832: gerontocratic
He stands out in a country with a gerontocratic government.
Artwork of the day
Cicero denouncing Catiline
John LeechStyle:RomanticismSeries:The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert Abbott À BecketGenre:illustration
Word of the day
gerontocratic: a form of social organization in which a group of old men or a council of elders dominates or exercises control
Quote of the day
“It is hard for them to condemn the gerontocratic ideal advocated by Cicero and Cato because that denouncement itself, coming from them, could easily pass, in the guise of preserved or rediscovered youth, as a claim to authority, as a coy claim to wisdom, experience, and power, at the very least the power of influence.”
― Marc Augé, Everyone Dies Young: Time Without Age