How to distinguish an idiot from a fool from a sage during the Covid-19 pandemic?

Eric Stone
3 min readDec 2, 2017

How about some personal insights into the state of the world and a little humour during these unprecedented times?

To my knowledge, there are only three types of individuals on this planet. There are idiots, fools and sages. Depending on your upbringing, who you are with, married to or work for, there might be some variations as to which category you belong to.

But first, how can you recognise these types instantaneously? Simply put, the difference between an idiot, a fool and a sage is that an idiot rarely laughs and is very serious, a fool laughs but has no idea why, while the sage laughs a great deal but he or she is very discreet and often makes sure that nobody notices. Laughter makes a sage more conscious and awake.

Human beings typically become “who they are with”. It is also important to know that idiocy and foolishness are extremely contagious. Even when you recover from the disease, you can relapse later and be contagious again.

In this climate when everyone seems to take everything so personally and so seriously, only the sage knows how to watch the absurd saga of our human comedy and refrain from adding more gasoline to the blazing fires of stupidity and righteousness.

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Eric Stone
Eric Stone

Written by Eric Stone

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