COUNCIL-OF CONCERNED-CONSERVATIONISTS…..Between Jest And Earnest…..

ALL CARDS ARE CREATED EQUAL:

—FIVE MORE TRADING CARDS FROM THE HISTORY OF DEMOCRACY SET

—Trade freely—but remember: no card is more equal than another.

(MINOAN FEMALE WORSHIPPER, CRETE, MID–2ND MILLENNIUM BC
Raised hand: generally interpreted as worship or adoration. Alternatively, the emotional-adolescent facepalm may be considerably older than previously believed.)

The Perennial Sophomore returns with another pack of five trading cards from the history of democracy. Collect them, trade them, or settle matters the old-fashioned way: flip them. Heads against tails; ties bring another card into play until somebody wins the pile. It was democracy as practiced on the sidewalk—equal participants, agreed rules, and the persistent danger that one fellow might walk away with everything.