Peregrine’s Reviews > Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know > Status Update

“The closest we have to Holy Fools in modern life are whistleblowers.” So I’m gonna need you to shut the fuck up, actually. The Holy Fool has such a long history and symbolism and actually they’re not equivalent to whistleblowers at all. It’s clear that the author did a cursory search on what the Holy Fool is and is cherry-picking for convenience and simplifies the Holy Fool to a ridiculous degree.

getting real tired of the narrative being spun right now and i’m not even sure what his end point is because he’s just giving example after example, story after story, with zero analysis. he keeps on implying that there’s something wrong with us that we don’t know how to recognize when people are lying to us but that’s just how humans are wired! we’re social creatures of course we trust the people we know