Rather than the king, I picture the jester as more closely related to the effortless individual. He comes off as knowing something you don't, just like he who remains calm and collected when people around him are trying to get the situation under control.
Always gets the last laugh.
Hi, In this post I meant a jester in the more classical sense of the word. CP from WP: 'A jester, court jester, or fool, was historically an entertainer during the medieval and Renaissance eras who was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain him and his guests.' This is more the 'entertainment' guy, working really hard, but just get ridicule. However, the meaning of the word is also used for a 'trickster' or The Joker. The trickster is a mythological creature, like Loki. He is a very smart and charismatic, bipolar like persona with many faces that plays his own games and make people fall into his clever traps. And they almost always get the last laugh! Tricksters a very interesting personas throughout history: Do you dare to write a post about them:)?
Yes, I did get that :) But that kind of jester is just a bad one. For in the King-Jester dynamic, the "clown" is there to remind his majesty of the sillyness and unseriousness of it all, even though he is addressing a king. If his jokes and tricks are any good, they will have a meaningful touch to them(in addition to the laughter ofc), very much like the sense of meaning one derives from great music or dance. These things are experienced as worthwhile because they don't serve any purpose other than the playing or dancing itself. The king, unless he takes too much pride in his office, may get the hint then, that life and the roles we play are ultimately games. For that is the jester's philosophy. Or the gods', for traditionally the jester is seen as the middleman between us and the divine. For if you really are effortless, then what you're doing should feel like a game. Not mere game, though. Which in other words means you're damn good at it. For the dance is only any good when it is effortless.
Besides all this, I did like your post. I guess you've earned yourself a new follower :) And yes, I want to one day start writing about the figures and figurines within the psyche.
Nice! I have never thought about the king-jester dynamic in this way before:) I love 'mythological' creatures: Especially the trickster figure throughout history and different cultures.