Every generation there will be those who are the Trickster’s children. Regardless of what form the Trickster takes to them, they all know that they have a duty to take people’s preconceptions of the world and shake them until they explode.
A trickster will not always do this for the same reason. Some do it to entertain themselves, others in acts of vengeance for perceived misdeeds, some do it to embrace that force known as “chaos” and some will simply to do it to see if they can make you think.
It is that final group with which I have always felt the greatest of affinities.
The eerily accurate transvestite, who plays a part before shaming you, makes you think about how you treat women. The hacker who spreads mildly irritating but non damaging malware in an email that plays upon your greed. The trickster is the satirist who points out the vanities of the time for all to see.
Tricksters are everywhere. It is a vital part of society’s development. Without somebody to question, to poke and to laugh at what we take for granted, we become nothing more than an irrelevance.
Pride comes before a fall. A trickster worth his salt deflates foolish pride before it becomes a danger.
A trickster does not fight the system. A trickster mocks and exploits it, drawing attention to the failures of those who thought themselves grand.
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