play the fool

I’m tempted to delete this. Or think more about it. How can your foolishness be measured? What practical steps can you take to increase your foolishness? Impractical steps, surely?

Duration: 30 to 40 years

Props: a complex society

Effect: joyful

...Act slantwise. Move like the bishop in chess – systematically diagonal. Walk crablike and crossways. Day in day out, meeting no resistance. Make it a habit to seek the least appropriate, most incongruous answer to any question. Apply it from time to time, and see what happens

The longest and hardest thing about playing the fool is arriving at the realisation that truly nothing is serious. Occupy the horizon, the point of convergence where absolutely everything becomes, in a sense, laughable: existence, death, humanity, love, the universe, ants, writing, money, careers, bodies, thought, politics. Among other things. Not forgetting laughter itself, and hilarity, and court jesters.

From 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit

I’m taking myself far too seriously.