The fool

arsedendi — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:41:06 +0000

Some, after reading the About page in my blog, were pointing – truthfully – at the fact that my so called not-so-BIG questions are in fact general-important-questions about the world and myself, and the small-questions-that-are-BIG are particular-important-questions about the same subject, but they are both BIG, and so must be both answered here. I’ll plead guilty as charged; but I also just want to make my point clear: I think that very often (meaning almost all the time) the questions we find important are not the general ones, but the small ones, as they have a direct impact on our daily life, and often an annoying one; that doesn’t mean that general questions are not important. So I will handle first and mainly the particular ones, but will also consider – sometimes – the others.

There are also those who were quite deceived by me relying on the Monty Python’s Meaning of Life to answer the not-so-BIG questions, arguing that they don’t answer those questions, but only mock them. Agree, but not completely. In a way, they give some answers, right at the end: ” Uh, try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations”. They just show what I was trying to write down: important questions are not prima facie the general ones as Why are we here? What’s life all about? but those little ones which are so practical. So, if you want a complement to the Monty Python’s way of life, just remember King Lear’s fool:

Have more than thou showest,
Speak less than thou knowest,
Lend less than thou owest,
Ride more than thou goest,
Learn more than thou trowest,
Set less than thou throwest;
Leave thy drink and thy whore
And keep in-a-door,
And thou shalt have more
Than two tens to a score.
Thanks to Shakespeare

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The fool