A fool and his money are soon parted

A fool and his money are soon parted is a well-know proverb. If you think about it, this is highly applicable in today's world of partisan divides, tribal nature, misinformation, fake news and biases or daily emerging flavours.

If you want to believe something then it's true - to you. From your truth you can leave it sitting in your head as only a thought or act on it in a myriad of ways. All thoughts have near zero consequence, unless a "Minority report" like film becomes reality. We do face real world threats today, due to jihadist and fundamentalist behaviour. However, police and security across the planet grapple with "timing" before some one may act on thought to make it a crime, before the crime happens.

Thanks to digital, computerization, automation, sensors, actuators, technology mainly integrated by Artificial Intelligence (or AI), most "fools" can be manipulated to part with their "money". And if you are a Trump Republican your "vote".?While this last is being played out on live media from the US, the phenomenon of "a fool" and "his everything" being "parted" is running rife around the planet in all forms, shapes and sizes.

From Dictators to Governments, state actors to state-less actors. our web to the dark web. Human trafficking, blackmail, drug peddling, political instability, climate change denial, the roots of COVID and the pandemic and more.

So what are the many manifestations of the saying ...

• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• A believer and his belief are dangerous
• A speaker is replaced by text-to-speech phone app.
• A listener is replaced by an audio-to-text phone app.

• A fool and his money are soon parted
• If you don't pay your tithe, God will punish you.
• If you don't atone for your sins, you will go to hell
• If you break the law, you will end up in jail.

• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• Microsoft lost out as a mobile operating system
• Java won't last forever
• Python is the future.

• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• Working from home is here to stay
• Office relationships are over
• Cash is dead. Long live digital.

• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• Virtual sex will replace dating
• Sex robots will replace humans
• Women dont need men to continue the human race

• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• Cryptocurrency is not money.
• Digital money is eCash
• Credit is better than debit.

• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• AI has been granted a patent.
• Robots don't have rights.
• Dogs, cows and fish have rights.

• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• I believe in Bernie Madoff
• The holocaust did not happen
• Donald Trump is our messiah.

• The gullible and their money are soon parted.
• The believers and their money are soon parted.
• The (un)biased and their money are soon parted.
• The suckers and their money are soon parted.

• A fool and his money are soon parted.
• A fool and his thoughts are soon parted.
• A fool and his thinking are soon parted.
• A fool and his brains are soon parted.

Back to the underlying message of the proverb is that, a person and what he or she perceives in value such as money, materials, things or even thoughts and mind-share can be stolen and taken away, quiet quite easily, from a few mind you, not all. Some of the people, some of the time. In the proverbial context, there is an implication that the fools are few and far between.?

In today's fast food world. Get rich quickly. Greed trumping fear. Risk seeking rather than risk aversion. The percentage of the few is becoming dramatically larger. Widening the "fool-pool" for more people to help them "part" with not just their money - but everything they stand for.

In all the several quoted proverbs in this article, "you" and "something of yours" will be "separated" or "parted" if you are not aware of it to start with, and prevent it from happening, if at all.

However a fool and any ownership or mind-share of a concept, science, fact, evidence, what you see, what you hear is very quickly over taken by our absorption by the media, phone, internet, billboards, brands, advertising, messaging ... even traditional books, press, TV channels are affected by this "parting" of "the fool from his money", literally and figuratively.