If It Isn't Wisdom It Must Be Folly

Wisdom: Understanding what is right, true, and lasting; good judgment.-Webster's II New University Dictionary By following along as the author relates her insightful discoveries, we become privy to the many disguises of folly that have served to keep us from "knowing ourselves." What we especially need to become aware of is our great potential; the promise of the wise is the ecstatic joy of enlightenment. Humor is defined as the ability to perceive and thus enjoy what is comical. When we are in a reasonable mood we are able to perceive what is humorous about human nature; when we are not, we lose both our sense of humor and our perspective. Consider, for example, the fact that we can be as repulsed by truth as we are by cockroaches. What is needed to become wise to folly is a clear understanding of what is wrong, what is not true, and what is ludicrous, ridiculous, or absurd and thus comical. While it is true that "the pen is mightier than the sword," it has also caused the sword to be taken up. There is no better way to bring about a glorious future and a happy ending to our troubled past than by recognizing folly and laughing it off the stage.