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Taleb was peak post-modernism. We& #39;re beginning to reacquire our taste for monumentalism.
I want trains and Mars missions and a cancer cure and presidential speeches from balconies and less irony.
And maybe that& #39;s why I overuse this meme:
It& #39;s usually used in response to a leading question. "You couldn& #39;t possibly believe...," "Surely you& #39;re not saying...?"
I& #39;m basically a sincere person, not because that comes naturally to me, but because I find sincerity to be woefully undersupplied.
I& #39;m basically a sincere person, not because that comes naturally to me, but because I find sincerity to be woefully undersupplied.
https://twitter.com/Pragmatictakes/status/1315205193840164865
This">https://twitter.com/Pragmatic... thread is closely related. The zeitgeist isn& #39;t actually utopianism. It& #39;s laughing about things that supposedly can& #39;t be changed.
This">https://twitter.com/Pragmatic... thread is closely related. The zeitgeist isn& #39;t actually utopianism. It& #39;s laughing about things that supposedly can& #39;t be changed.
I have nothing against that approach when there genuinely aren& #39;t any good alternatives, but we should at least try and exhaust possible alternatives before we resort to laughter.
The zeitgeist is learned helplessness.
