"Is it better to know the truth and be unhappy or live in a fools paradise." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Isn't tulpamancy making us the fools, and is there a problem with that?

The fool represents not someone who is dull or ignorant, but someone who can take himself lightly. He's not someone who laughs at other's pain but with others and at himself. This is the pinnacle of ego in my opinion. Someone who can see that he is a fool and ebrace it knowing the truth and how painful it can ultimately be if entrapped in it, and deftly avoid that entrapment, based in counter-reasoning. Truly ignorant in only the stupidity of doctrinal beliefs.

Look around you and see the suffering and note those who suffer are completely entrapped in a cage they built for themselves, one of loss and self pitty, regret and anxiety. They'll ignore the foolish things, the light things, the hidden meaning that brings joy because they've already given their all to the illusions reality presented them. Then a light string of "truth" holds them fast in their suffering because all they remember is when they failed to break it as a child.

In the true reality of reality-less subjective freedom, there is no unbending spoon, no unbeatable foe, nothing in fact to fear at all, not even death.

I further contend that as a fool every wish may be granted, even beyond your wildest dreams as long as you believe one tiny secret, that what you want you already have and you need nothing more. Even to laugh at your own poverty and inability. It's not just optimism and accepting your current state, to be present, but to work, yes it does require work, to better yourself with every opportunity, but take only jobs you can enjoy. Therefore there is never a thought of rest or retirement.

"How," you say, "can I take only jobs I enjoy when all the jobs are tedious and grey." I say you are bound too tightly to your understanding of what you consider to be real. True freedom is immaterial, joy is immaterial, contentment requires nothing, lacks for nothing, laments nothing, there's nothing to lose or be taken away.

"The root of suffering is attachment." - Buddha.

The Buddha was a fool.

My final point. You can take everything away from a 3-yr old, every gadget and toy, every play thing, and he will find an empty box and piece of string and play with them more fully and easily than the faciest baubles. If a child can do this, what have you forgotten? What in this materialist dystopian nightmare has entrapped you into suffering? You've been blinded by your love of things, and in that comparison to what others don't have, but they'll never make you happy in the end.

If you disagree, call me a fool. If you agree then you are the fool.