If you are a regular reader of this website, perhaps you saw the comment left by a contributing writer to this blog. It was about being made a fool of. This is what he sent for information: “
DEFINITIONS – WHAT IS BEING DONE TO PUBLIC SERVANTS and how they unknowingly and knowingly are in fact self destructing. Thus fools advocating for their own demise and followed by fools that believe their every word…
make a fool –
3. One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe
Idiom.
make a fool of (out) of someone –
to make someone look foolish
dupe –
noun.
2. a person who unquestioningly or unwittingly serves a cause or another person
Verb (used with object).
3. to make a dupe of; deceive; delude; trick
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dupe –
noun.
2. a person who unwittingly serves as the tool of another person or power
3. ( transitive verb ) to deceive, esp by trickery; make a dupe or tool of; cheat; fool
dupe –
( transitive verb ) to trick someone into believing something that is not true or into doing something that is stupid or illegal
To substantiate this definition, I also was sent a link to an online article, one of which after some further investigation, I discovered had been echoed in many places across Cyberspace and presented as factual information.
Here is the photo that accompanied the claim that this picture shows an opossum picking ticks off a deer’s face.
Included in nearly all of the repeated nonsense, was how incredibly important the opossum is in protecting us from Lyme disease – that famed Balance of Nature, etc..
There is some truth behind opossums and ticks that carry Lyme disease. Opossums like to eat ticks and they groom away and/or eat about any tick that gets on them, including the black-legged tick that carries Lyme disease.
Do these animals actually limit the spread of Lyme disease? Well, yes, but we really don’t know exactly how much. But this is not the point I’m trying to make.
The point is that in our post-normal society where we are always being “duped” and made fools of (we bring this all on ourselves due to our willful ignorance, laziness, and strong desire to belong to something, especially something that seems good – like environmentalism where Nature balances itself, etc.), when someone lays hands on a photo, like the one shown above, they drop to their knees in worship of the creation and all false beliefs that go along with it.
It’s an interesting photo, acclaimed to have been captured on a wildlife camera, but the idea that opossums perch themselves on a rock waiting for a passing deer so they can groom the ticks from the face or other parts of the deer, is about as absurd as wolves changing the courses of brooks and rivers.
A fool is “one who has been tricked or made to look ridiculous.” If you blindly believed what anyone told you about this picture, and/or passed it on, you are a fool and a dupe – “a person who unquestioningly or unwittingly serves a cause or another person.”
The world is loaded with probably as many fools and dupes as there are black-legged ticks. Don’t be a fool!!!
