More than clowns, they’re all fools.

Not just that, clowns and jesters played critical and culturally significant roles.

“Fools” is not only not an insult to clowns and jesters, but it’s far more accurate.

I would even say without any necessary religious perspective, these people are like the origins of the term and concept of “demons”, entities representing the most heinous and nefarious instincts and impulses of humanity so vile and repulsive that they had to be emanations of hell. How would you even makes sense of such evil behavior back then. They didn’t know what the dark triad of personality flaws was, narcissism, psychopathy, and machiavellianism (yes, I understand it’s an erroneous label, but it’s the one used).