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That's what Renaissance kings did to break out of the group-think environment their "yes-men" advisors created. It was the fool's job to parody any proposal under discussion to make it appear in a fresh light. He might extol the trivial, trifle the exalted, or reverse the common perception of a situation. Example: "If a man is sitting backwards on a horse, why do we assume that it is the man who is backwards and not the horse?" Result: he dislodged people's assumptions and allowed them to see things in a fresh light. What would a fool say about what you're doing? The fool says that you are absolutely wrong in your two most basic assumptions about your issue. Why is he correct?

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