Most People Are Complete Fools

After many years of careful observation, I find that I have now arrived at a starkly definitive conclusion: most people are complete fools. Most of them, according to all the readily available evidence, are so utterly foolish that one can only conjecture as to how they are able to propel themselves from day to day without regularly falling into a condition of extreme misfortune.

One needs only to pause and take a close look at the current state of affairs in our world to grasp the unmistakable verity of my words. Look around, and what does one see? Does one see most people going about their lives in a manner that might be described, in total honesty, as "rational"? No, one certainly does not. What one sees, instead, is an endless chain of foolish actions.

It is beyond question that unmitigated foolery prevails in nearly every corner of human experience. To be a complete fool is to be one of the happy crowd for whom reason is a thing to be avoided. If one is a complete fool, it is inevitable that one will frequently suffer the untoward results of complete foolishness, but it is also likely that one will always have plenty of company.

One might think that in a world beset by war, poverty, famine, and disease, most people would try a bit harder to be less foolish, but such is not the case. Indeed, it seems that as the general situation gets worse, most people are inclined to respond by being more foolish than ever. It appears that, come what may, most people actually prefer to err on the side of complete foolishness.

Any person seeking to act wisely within this perpetual display of rampant foolery is taking upon themselves a formidable task: a task that in the end, no matter how earnest their intentions and how estimable their motives, will prove to be quite thankless. Nevertheless, in my own case, I am determined that, come what may, I shall never consent to being a complete fool myself.