Parable of the fool
Marvin X at the University of Chicago Sun Ra Conference, 2015
photo Burrell Sunrise
We know the wise man can play the fool, but the fool can never play the wise man, although Shakespeare did indeed have wise fools in his plays. But, most often the fool is lost in his sea of foolishness. Even when he goes to school, he yet comes out the fool. Alas, often his teachers were fools. Thus they could not teach him anything except to expand his foolishness.
The fool's nature is to wallow in stupidity and foolishness. The African proverb says when the fool is told a proverb its meaning must be explained to the fool. He dwells on the low information vibration mentality. When told the truth, he denies it for lies, half truths and sordid miscalculations of the one billion, ten hundred thousand illusions of the monkey mind as taught by His Holiness Guru Bawa.
You may teach the fool day and night, pour your heart out to him, let him suck all the wisdom from your head, yet your wisdom is like water on the ducks back running into the pond. The fool has so many issues he cannot absorb your wisdom even when he tries.
He sits at your table eating your most gracious food, yet in his utter madness tells you, "You don't know what people can be thinking when they sit at your table. They can be thinking about killing you." Then the fool says, "If I kill you, I will be famous, huh?"
--Marvin X
2/23/21