The Mirror
Say what you want without laundering it into virtue. “I want to be admired” is a cleaner prayer than a speech about standards.
Dispatch no. 001 A religion for people caught wanting things
Confess the folly.
Keep the freedom.
We praise the ridiculous machinery of desire until it becomes visible—and what is visible need no longer be your master.
No miracles promised. No certainty required. Comfortable shoes encouraged.
Local person attains spiritual liquidity after admitting they wanted applause all along.
Committee confirms the soul may wear sequins.
The central inconvenience
Folly is not cured by pretending to be wise.
Erasmus let Folly climb the pulpit and praise herself. She arrives with Self-love, Flattery, Oblivion, Laziness, Pleasure, Madness, and Wantonness, then points at the scholars, lovers, merchants, rulers, clergy, gamblers, patriots, and aging beauties who imagine they are exempt.
The Follytarian begins there: not by escaping desire, but by giving it a name, a costume, and five uninterrupted minutes at the microphone. A confessed folly becomes material for play. A denied folly quietly writes policy.
The Bell
Laugh at the mechanism, never the vulnerable person caught inside it. Humor should announce freedom, not superiority.
The Open Ledger
Money, rank, and influence must become more visible near the altar, not less. Mystification is not a business model.
The illuminated catalog
Choose the desire currently choosing you.
Every longing gets a sales pitch. Every sales pitch gets an exit.
FOLLY I / VIII
A Handsome Fortune
“For those who have always suspected that inner peace would be improved by better upholstery.”
THE RELEASE
Name the sum. Name the envy it is meant to produce. Then make one honest thing someone may actually wish to buy.Advertisement for self-recognition. Not a promise of wealth, youth, status, or access to another human being.
The book of necessary nonsense
Selected writings for the knowingly ridiculous.
Composed after Erasmus, with gratitude and an unreasonable quantity of marginalia.
Current edition · Issue No. 1
The Mirror Has Noticed You
Doctrine, confession, practice, illustration, and elegant self-suspicion.
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Citizens of the mirror, do not lower your eyes. I know why you have come. One wants peace, provided peace includes a larger kitchen. Another desires pure love, so long as it arrives young, solvent, and impressed. A third has renounced worldly rank but would like the renunciation properly announced.
Excellent. We are among professionals. Wisdom enters by the side door carrying a list of corrections; Folly throws open the windows. She does not say that your longing is noble. She says it is yours. This small humiliation is the first honest luxury.
Therefore place the crown upside down. Praise what is gaudy in you until it loses the power of secrecy. Then rise, lighter by one disguise, and do the next useful thing without requiring a trumpet.
To the Person Refreshing Their Balance
Your number is not a weather report from heaven. It is a number. If it is small, make a plan; if it is large, make a plan and become harder to flatter.
Continue in Issue No. 1 →The Peacock and the Borrowed Feathers
A peacock rented a lion’s biography and wondered why the forest still recognized the walk. The forest had met consultants before.
Continue in Issue No. 1 →A Night Prayer for the Overqualified
May I release the argument I won in the shower. May my expertise survive one sincere question. May the morning find my title slightly smaller and my attention restored.
Folly’s household
Seven companions. Useful guests. Terrible board members.
Philautia
Self-love
She lends enough vanity to begin; we ask her to leave before the group photograph.
Kolakia
Flattery
She oils the door of society. Apply sparingly and never to an earnings statement.
Lethe
Oblivion
She lets old embarrassments sleep. She is forbidden from bookkeeping.
Misoponia
Laziness
She protects the holy afternoon. She may not fulfill zine orders.
Hedone
Pleasure
She makes the rite worth attending and the afterparty run late.
Anoia
Madness
She proposes the impossible edition. Occasionally the printer agrees.
Tryphe
Wantonness
She overdresses the ordinary and reminds restraint not to become a bore.
The ordinary observance
A religion should interrupt the calendar.
Our rituals are short because vanity has another appointment.
Daily · 60 seconds
The Morning Admission
Face a mirror and complete: “Today I would very much like strangers to think I am…” No correction follows.
Weekly · Thursday
The Praise Fast
Do one good thing and tell nobody until midnight. If discovered, deny exceptional character.
Monthly · New moon
The Exchange of Bad Ideas
Bring one proposal too foolish for ordinary company. The circle asks what truth has disguised itself inside.
Annually · April 1
The Feast of Reconsideration
Reverse one opinion in public. Paper crowns are worn point-down. Receipts are read as sacred autobiography.
The fellowship of the circulating page
The word travels by zine. The money travels by ledger.
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THE FOLLYTARIAN
ISSUE No. 1THE MIRROR HAS NOTICED YOU
34 digital pages of doctrine, confession, illustration & elegant self-suspicionA quarterly digital publication
Issue No. 1: The Mirror Has Noticed You
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The honest procession
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Questions frequently muttered near the exit.
01Is Folly a goddess?
Only when she is speaking. At tax time this is a digital publishing and membership concern.
02Must I abandon reason?
Certainly not. Reason is invited to every meeting and asked to stop monopolizing the conversation.
03Will I receive wealth, youth, prestige, or romance?
You will receive language for admitting that you want them. The distinction is the beginning of freedom.
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07Is this a joke?
Yes, but not only. A bell is hollow and still tells the hour.
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