November 21, 2009
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Tricksters of the World, Unite!

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May / June 2004
Bradford Keeney Utne magazine 
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Consider the patriotic playfulness of our country's founding gadfly, Benjamin Franklin, who dared to tap lightning in a reckless experiment using his famous key and kite. What would happen if you tried to channel a similar wild, unpredictable bolt of energy into your politics -- on campus, in the streets? That is what the holy fool can do for us. The result could be the thunderclap that jolts us out of our somber concern for the world into a new state of energy and purpose that just might serve us better.

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Bradford Keeney is Distinguished Scholar of Cultural Studies with the Ringing Rocks Foundation (www.ringingrocks.org) and author of the book Bushman Shaman (Inner Traditions), coming out later this year. See the profile of Keeney in Utne (July/Aug. 2003).

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