The word «fool» holds so much weight, and yet we can’t quite agree on its meaning. In the Shakespearean sense, the Fool is a commoner who uses their wit to outsmart and get the better of those with a higher social standing. And thus we get the brilliantly enigmatic Isaac Asimov quote, «That, of course, is the great secret of the successful fool – that he is no fool at all.» The good fool willingly dons the mask of ignorance to hide their high-level wheelings and dealings. 

But the way we use «fool» today is purely pejorative. We call something doomed from the start a «fool’s errand.» We call thoughtless choices «foolish.» We use the phrase «don’t suffer fools» to praise someone who doesn’t put up with dimwits. Where did the love of the fool go? I propose we embrace foolishness. And we can start doing that in the only way we here at Memebase know how, through memes.