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The #MastoPrompt for Wednesday 2 April 2025 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise there is more folly than wisdom.
[Il y a plus de fous que de sages, et dans le sage même, il y a plus de folie que de sagesse.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 2, ¶ 149 (1795) [tr. Merwin (1969)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/759…
@PatrickoftheG #Fool hires idiots.
"Stock market sell-off deepens after Trump doubles tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium imports to 50% – business live"
Bruce McKinnon's famous editorial cartoon.
Education must be based on two things: ethics and prudence; ethics in order to develop your good qualities, prudence to protect you from other people’s bad ones. If you attach too great an importance to goodness, you produce credulous fools; if you’re too prudent, you produce self-serving, scheming rogues.
[L’Éducation doit porter sur deux bases, la morale et la prudence ; la morale, pour appuyer la vertu ; la prudence, pour vous défendre contre les vices d’autrui. En faisant pencher la balance du côté de la morale, vous ne faites que des dupes ou des martyrs; en la faisant pencher de l’autre côté, vous faites des calculateurs égoïstes.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 5, ¶ 321 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 205]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/897…
‘The Fool on the Hill’, an “irresistible, universal" ballad, effectively transposes into pop music a literary theme seen in fairy tales, stories of monarchs prizing their court jester over more learned counsel, and Dostoevsky's novel ‘The Idiot’.
- from Nicholas Schaffner’s book, ‘The Beatles Forever’
#Songwriting #Beatles #McCartney #Fool #Vinyl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDlODl4MWg8
![A screenshot of a social media post contains a quote attributed to Elon Musk and a quote from G.M. Gilbert.
The first part “Elon Musk to CNN: ‘The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,’ Musk said.
‘There it's they're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.’
Empathy, he said, has been ‘weaponized.’
Now read the attached, below:”
[A black-and-white image of G.M. Gilbert, identified as the chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis during the Nuremberg Trials.]
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
- G. M. Gilbert
AZ QUOTES”](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/129/631/947/666/059/original/e48af6fad00a7985.jpeg "A screenshot of a social media post contains a quote attributed to Elon Musk and a quote from G.M. Gilbert.
The first part “Elon Musk to CNN: ‘The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,’ Musk said.
‘There it's they're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.’
Empathy, he said, has been ‘weaponized.’
Now read the attached, below:”
[A black-and-white image of G.M. Gilbert, identified as the chief psychologist who interviewed Nazis during the Nuremberg Trials.]
“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.
- G. M. Gilbert
AZ QUOTES”")
Now might be a good time to start reading internatinal news to see the predicament we are in. Yesterday would have been better.
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/114087376554386676
Included in this thread are multiple English language versions of international newspapers, plus a translation plug-in for your browser.
Link to article in Zeit.de https://archive.ph/tToYq from photo below.
A quotation from Robert Bolt
WOLSEY: You opposed me in the Council this morning, Thomas.
MORE: Yes, Your Grace.
WOLSEY: You were the only one.
MORE: Yes, Your Grace.
WOLSEY: You’re a fool.
MORE: Thank God there is only one fool on the Council.
Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
A Man for All Seasons, film (1966)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bolt-robert/74894/
#Guerre au #Proche- #Orient : les propos de #DonaldTrump ( rhe #chaos #orange #fool ) sur #Gaza éclipsent les #dossiers #chauds aux #États- #Unis #US #USA
C'est vieux comme le monde : c'est le #principe de l' #enfumage, de la #déviation de l' #attention ..
www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/usa/pr...
Guerre au Proche-Orient : les ...
Attended a departmental workshop in an old draughty room today. Thoughtfully our director had added ‘wrap up’ at the end of the email inviting us. I took her advice and wore a thick jumper and boots.
So you’re probably way ahead of me but a closer look at the email just before we started revealed it to be the agenda, and last item was:
4pm - Wrap Up
#Fool
Donna Trump made all Americans female by decree, because the is the mayonnaise emperor.
He decreed in his new clothes, that your gender is the gender toy had at conception, and "at conception" and for many weeks we are all female, femalecsex structures turn into male much later.
Because these bozos don't know anything.
Fool, she probably didn't want to he America's First Woman President, but Donna did it.