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On Animal Farm, the horse Boxer believes everything he is told, and works hard day and night. This pure naivety paves the way for evil people to rule our world. Naivety is not infallible. Gullibility must be accompanied by intelligence, knowledge, caution and foresight. This is wisdom. To be wise, you must know evil and see it clearly, and you must also be naive enough to believe in your ability to resist it. Through his collection of stories, Uday Al-Zoubi seeks to raise a question about the limits of wisdom, and its relationship with naivety. Foolish, unwise naivety, and evil, unnaive wisdom, almost dominate our world, spreading confusion and darkness and making the world a dangerous, ambiguous mixture of things, ideas, and stories.