do you play the fool?

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I myself like to play this part in society, The "fool" in older societies was also known as "The village idiot" was long considered an acceptable social role, a unique individual who was dependent yet contributed to the social fabric of his community. I myself am dependent on others for transportation and other things. I don't own a car and cant drive due to narcolepsy. But do contribute to society in my knowledge and when I have had a job, as a chef.

The below was taken from the wikipedia article on the fool tarot card.

The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world. The sun shining behind him represents the divine nature of the Fool's wisdom and exuberance, holy madness or 'crazy wisdom'. On his back are all the possessions he might need. In his hand there is a flower, showing his appreciation of beauty. He is frequently accompanied by a dog, sometimes seen as his animal desires, sometimes as the call of the "real world", nipping at his heels and distracting him. He is seemingly unconcerned that he is standing on a precipice, apparently about to step off. One of the keys to the card is the paradigm of the precipice, Zero and the sometimes represented oblivious Fool's near-step into the oblivion (The Void) of the jaws of a crocodile, for example, are all mutually informing polysemy within evocations of the iconography of The Fool. The staff is the offset and complement to the void and this in many traditions represents wisdom and renunciation, e.g. 'danda' (Sanskrit) of a Sanyassin, 'danda' (Sanskrit) is also a punctuation mark with the function analogous to a 'full-stop' which is appropriately termed a period in American English. The Fool is both the beginning and the end, neither and otherwise, betwixt and between, liminal.
The number 0 is a perfect significator for the Fool, as it can become anything when he reaches his destination as in the sense of 'joker's wild'. Zero plus anything equals the same thing. Zero times anything equals zero.[6] Zero is nothing, a lack of hard substance, and as such it may reflect a non-issue or lack of cohesiveness for the subject at hand.

Sorry if this is in the wrong section i could not decide weather to put this here or in the religion section. mods feel free to move it.

So my question to you is do you play the fool?

I did when I was younger, it was my only way to fit in, or to get noticed.

Yeah it probably wouldn be to far off tbh.

Not at all. I am fiercely independent and usually prefer to lead that to be led. I would rather have others dependent on me than I on them.