You don't need to like clowns or soldiers, you just need to love life and laughter as much as rebellion. You could uncover your inner clown and discover the subversive freedom of fooling. You could learn ingeniously stupid tactics that baffle the powerful. You could be part of a fighting force armed with ruthless love and fully trained in the ancient art of clowning and non-violent direct action. The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army is looking for fools and rebels, radicals and rascals, tricksters and traitors, mutineers and malcontents to join its ranks.Chesterton, writing of God as a trickster promoting anarchist plots in The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), Ch. I never read the Bible myself, but that part they laugh at is literal truth, 'Why leap ye, ye high hills?' The hills do leap - at least, they try to. Haven't you sometimes felt it on a spring day? You know Nature plays tricks, but somehow that day proves they are good-natured tricks. There is a kind of gaiety in the thing, as if he were bursting with some good news. No, it's not an admiration of force, or any silly thing like that. Quotes Since the beginning of time tricksters (the mythological origin of all clowns) have embraced life's paradoxes, creating coherence through confusion - adding disorder to the world in order to expose its lies and speak the truth. ![]() Outside of mythologies, the term trickster is used for anyone who often tricks others, in either good-humored or malicious ways. Some trickster figures are skilled in allowing the malicious, deceitful, or even the naïvely innocent to torment or burden them in extreme ways which they easily or casually surmount, to then become frightening or terrifying figures as they request or demand just recompense for burdens borne, to the detriment, doom or extreme humiliation of others. ~ Robertson DaviesĪ Trickster, within many mythologies, and in the study of folklore and religion, is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior, undermining the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously but usually, albeit unintentionally, with ultimately positive or complexly mysterious or magical effects, the consequences of which are often difficult to assess. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster. ![]() ~ Lin Yutang I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. All modern civilization depends entirely upon him. He will be the champion of human dignity and individual freedom, and will be the last to be conquered. I am doing my best to glorify the scamp … The scamp will be the last and most formidable enemy of dictatorships.
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