Our society has rejected the Fool, not only because he cannot be exploited, not only because they judge everything by its usefulness; but they are frightened and disturbed by the Fool, because he is the child of life, and not of abstract virtue. The Fool is purity of consciousness. This purity is a cosmic folly that is utterly detached from what most of the world thinks worth doing; it is detached from the deadening edifice of clever ambitions, of power, and of the incredible vanity of knowledge, that has already dulled the capacity for the poetry of life in contemporary society.
我们的社会一直排斥愚人, 不只因为愚人不能拿来利用, 不只因为人们以有无用处作为评判准则. 他们不过是对愚人感到害怕和不安, 因为他是生命之子, 而不属于抽象美德. 愚人, 是意识的纯粹体. 这种纯粹是存在于宇宙中的荒谬剧, 彻底的分隔于大多世人眼中值得去做之事; 它分隔于那幢隔音建筑中的精明野心, 权力, 以及知识所生的不可思议的虚荣, 这虚荣已经钝化了当代社会中生活的诗意可能性. (译注: 这不是我从计算机系退学时想说的么...)