the dangerous fool

on foolish belief

Dangerous fools.

We’re everywhere.

Within each of us is the ability to be an ordinary fool, a remarkable fool and a dangerous fool.

I’ve not spent much time talking about dangerous fools.

The dangerous fools?

Those are the ones who believe that the story in their head isn’t just a story they tell themselves. A dangerous fool believes that the story in their head about how the world works and what should happen isn’t just a story.

They believe that the story in their head is THE TRUTH.

A dangerous fool believes that this truth is beyond reproach and can not be questioned.

A dangerous fool willfully creates blind spots for themselves with fanaticism and arrogance.

A dangerous fool believes that the ends justify the means.

You can be a dangerous fool sometimes.

It’s part of your shadow.

We all have one.

Well.

In Orwell’s 1984 Winston Smith ended up in a room without shadows.

That room was created by dangerous fools.

Instead?

Take the dangerous fool part of you out for a coffee.

Before they sit down, put…