On Facebook, a mate of mine posed the following question, to which I replied and got an answer I particularly liked:
Santo finds himself pondering about how wise men talk because they have something to say yet fools talk because they have to say something…
Gordon: Is it the fool or the wise man who talks to himself and then dismisses the wisdom of what is being shared because only a fool would talk when no-one else was around?
Santo: Mmmm…a conundrum…I would suggest it would be a fool who talks to himself rhetorically and dogmatically, then replies in agreement to his own discussions…we call them politicians.
Gordon: Oh, very good .. I like that response. A lot!!!
I think this requires a little more thinking about Fools and Wise Men.
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