Thread:BTR180/@comment-27550231-20200103233019/@comment-28144855-20200107171635

It's from a novel, The fundation. A guy took control of basically everything by playing the courts fool. If you stop and think about it, the court's fool can get very close to kings and emperors and slowly play his part, influencing them, pupeteering, hidden by the veil of 'idiocy'. Ingenious!