The jester’s power stems from an aggressive exuberance, quick wit and the ability to employ said wit mercilessly, savagely and without mercy – for it is their ability to verbally destroy an enemy to a chorus of laughter that makes their otherwise unacceptable displays permissible. Cunning may be universal, but the way in which it is employed, expressed and personified differs vastly. Be it to charm or humiliate, jesters use humour and seducers employ sexuality whereas fault finders prefer the obsessive pedantry of rigid and inflexible bureaucratic protocol and a penchant for malicious compliance. Different archetypes use different stylistic mediums to exert their influence. Think of a Machiavellian archetype as a flavour of cunning, all Machiavellians are cunning, but the way in which that cunning is expressed differs vastly in its style and execution. The feminine Machiavellian archetype is almost always that of the seductress, favouring the weaponisation of sex and all the attendant traits this implies, she presupposes the virginity of enemy men and the promiscuity of enemy women whilst overtly oozing innuendo and sensualism in her bid to entrance allies. Of course a high functioning dark triad woman is wittier than her neurotypical counterpart by affect of her reduced emotional sensitivity, but this does not lend itself to becoming the dominant function which underpins and subsequently characterises her interpersonal style. As the dearly departed Christopher Hitchens stated in simpler terms, women aren’t funny because they don’t need to be and such a truism does not find any particular exception within the expression of one’s Machiavellian interpersonal style either. The wit inherent to the mechanisms of the jester are intrinsically masculine in their nature, for the jester employs a type of verbal gladiatorship of which I have little doubt is fuelled in great part by the male need to prove his genetic fitness to the female. Likewise if I am to put my personal experiences to one side and observe the wider culture, I remain at a loss in the attempt to identify a female jester. And I say ‘he’, for of the few jesters I have encountered, not one has been female. The jester’s humour can take on either an attack or defence posture, with humiliation acting as his weapon, and plausible deniability his shield. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar ‘queen,’ alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.” – Umberto EcoĢ.) Leadership Destabilisation Through Character Assassination “The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king.
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