Bozo Sapiens

Often, the dialogues trail off into a state that contemporary rhetoric called aporia—the realization that there is no more that can be said. Not, for any Greek, a happy ending.

This idea was given a sharp point by the Italian economist Carlo Cipolla in his essay “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.

“As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Solomon was neither first nor last to worry about this: throughout humankind’s triumphant progress similarly grim prophets have reminded us that our basic senselessness

g. We may have been made in the divine image, but it was on Saturday night at the end of a long, hard week.