how do you know someone is a fool?
you know someone to be a fool because he acts foolishly, yes?
what if someone is guided? or didn’t have an opportunity to be stupid?
-Everyone is a fool until proven otherwise
-The only way to prove intelligence, wisdom — is by solving a NEW problem (problems), intelligently, creatively, and INDIVIDUALLY
-I don’t care what you have to say. I don’t even really care about “your” results.
What you say can merely be what someone else has said. Your results may not belong to you, but to people that put you there, put you in a machine
I do not say this with malice. I obviously believe in learning from others, and in COOPERATING for the common good.
I say this to reveal that who you consider to be a great success or great authority can be just a stupid fool, a monkey.
And I say this to reassure the few (true) individuals to continue threading their own path.
OBVIOUSLY learn from others. But don’t BECOME OTHERS.
Don’t be the mob. Don’t think like mob. Don’t repeat everything someone says, don’t use the labels they created, don’t call yourself anything at all, anything but an INDIVIDUAL,
…Or else you’re just a stupid fool.
Again: fools can get quite far.
Alas it can never be where they truly want to go (not that they know where they want to go)
And mind you, should any disturbance subvert the current paradigm — the fools go FLYING. It’s a catastrophe.
Because ready-solutions and ready-philosophy cannot prepare you for the UNKNOWN.
Therefore, in the grand scheme of things, a fool is a fool, and gets adverse results. Eventually.
Fool’s education and career and successes and beauty and power and fame and declarations — none of those matter. A fool is a fool. This is the only takeaway.
Think for yourself. REALLY think for yourself. It’s a cliche but almost no one truly lives that. Go on make your own mistakes. It’s the only way to LEARN, learn to do anything (meaningful) at all, learn to LIVE.