My partner and I have been studying different fool traditions from around the world for our thesis project, but we keep getting into arguments about whether the Western court jester is fundamentally different from the Hindu Vidushaka, and our academic collaboration has turned into this weird power struggle where we're both trying to be the 'expert.'
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are using intellectual disagreement to avoid the vulnerability required for genuine collaborative discovery.
“Where Are You with The fool tradition across cultures?”
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