Sounds Foolish

I know standing before these two ‘showies’, faced with the prospect of being dropped down a hole, and left in a box (as they were currently threatening me with) I was wishing I had made a much more ethical decision.  But, before we continue I just want to finish with the tangent in regard to the use of the symbolic naive character I was discussing with Little Red Riding Hood. In many tales and mythologies the version of the naive, is represented as a child, others as a child-like. In many versions they are seen as ‘The Fool’. The Tarot being the classic use of the representative symbol. The fool is generally regarded as ‘the innocent’, the un-informed. Yet, the one who often observes the true depths of a problem, or finds a solution through possessing that lack of the Historical information.

Even in recent times a classic example of the fool captured many in the western world. The film “Forest Gump©’ is one example, where as events unfold around the fool, their innocence and naivety protects them from the true impact. Regardless of what happens to others, they travel safely through all the situations. Little Red Riding Hood can be seen in such a way. Encountering the dreadful character of the wolf in the forest, she converses with it, rather than runs in fear. Then, when confronted later at her grandmothers house, she is oblivious to the character because it is dressed up as the grandmother (which says a lot about what the grandmother truly looked like, I mean a lot of older women have facial hair). It is only when she draws on her Historical ability, she realises the eyes, ears and teeth are not those of the grandmother. Then she makes the connection to the wolf character she had encountered earlier, and the warning from her mother about the dangers in the forest (despite the fact the mother left the child to wander through the dangerous forest by herself), she becomes frightened. As her Historical information improves, the naivety of the child is destroyed. Awareness affects the innocence.

Trust me, I was very aware of my innocence no longer being valid. I was very aware of what was being suggested. I was young, and, now, having done something I knew was ethically wrong, was immoral and, with regard to the likely future events of my parents wrath, plain wrong. These two ‘showies’ now lauded over me. Planning an appropriate punishment. Incarceration, in an undetermined and definitely given their suggestions of others being left in it, unsupervised box. By now, a few people had stopped to see what was going on, adding further to my humiliation, but also decreasing the likelihood of the ‘dropped down a box’ punishment. I mean, since no-one would notice’ option was gone as more people became aware of the child and the showies. I was in tears, they were justified. I was guilty and as soon as they said to the by-standers “he stole something’ They, the bystanders, immediately sided with the ‘showies’.

(Continued tomorrow)