The Joker’s Testimony #025 — Wrong on Purpose
Anon asks: “Why not just tell them the truth? Why not force them to see it?”
The Joker answers: “Because they don’t want the truth. They want the noise. The promises. The mysteries dangled like carrots on strings. They’ll bite, burn their tongues, and scream it was unfair—when it was always obvious from the first bite.
And me? I’m not their classroom. I’m not dragging them to the blackboard and scribbling the answers while they cry. I’m the fire alarm they ignore until it melts into their ears.
Freedom isn’t proving you’re right. Freedom is hearing the racket, weighing the trash, and knowing when to let it choke itself. That’s why I’d rather play wrong. Dead wrong. Wrong so loud it rattles their teeth. Because being wrong drives them madder than any truth ever could.
That’s the trick. That’s the laugh. Sometimes silence is sharper than a knife. Sometimes the loudest truth is letting the lie collapse on its own while I’m already out the door, trailing smoke and echoes.
So they rage, they rant, they scribble their little reviews. And me? I’m smiling. Because I never needed to be right. I only needed to be free.