The soul and the ego. Or when the proverb holds: Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.

One may control one's own ego in accordance with what one's soul may long. One may not, however, control one's own soul because the soul is something that is heavenly given to the one when one is born as a being with a physical form. When the soul and the body are combined as a being the ego of one's own evolves as the one grows. One may lead one's life to a state where what the soul longs matches what the ego longs. If there is a gap between what is longed by the soul and what is longed by the ego, there is a varying degree of tension correspondent with the degree of gaps in them. If such a gap is too huge that the one is unable to listen to one's own soul and hence is unable to undestand what the soul is actually longing, then it is often the case that Publilius Syrus' famous proverb holds: Stultum facit fortuna, quem vult perdere.

Let us be reminded of Matthew 7:13-14 KJV: [13] Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: [14] Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Ironically enough, for those who choose the wide gate and the broad way, therefore, destruction can be interpreted as a relief for them. Here, the term "relief" may mean the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced. Now what is the easiest way (of course in a sense of "strait is the gate, and broad is the way") to be relieved when the gap is unacceptably huge between what the soul longs and what the ego longs? BECOME A FOOL. Therefore, the state of Syrus' saying is easily achieved among those who are otherwise regarded as cool. This is how unbelievably a stupid situation can realize in the real world.