I agree with bait - it can mean different things to different people. Here's my two cents: The Ship of Fools refers to the world itself and its inhabitants. Many of us are innocent deep down but we really don't have a good idea about how things work. In the U.S. anyway there's talk about how the nation is getting dumber, how people are less educated than before, so we are, fools in a way. We didn't even know "that two and two are four." We're just a bunch of naive fools sailing through space on planet Earth.
I agree with bait - it can mean different things to different people. Here's my two cents: The Ship of Fools refers to the world itself and its inhabitants. Many of us are innocent deep down but we really don't have a good idea about how things work. In the U.S. anyway there's talk about how the nation is getting dumber, how people are less educated than before, so we are, fools in a way. We didn't even know "that two and two are four." We're just a bunch of naive fools sailing through space on planet Earth.