TALEB, WOMEN, AND THE CATHEDRAL
Taleb’s early books are an effort to feed his ego (self image)
His later works are an effort to defend his ego (self image). He made a career popularizing mandelbrot.
He DID successfully restore ‘whatever doesn’t kill you only serves to make you stronger” as anti-fragility to the popular will but was unsuccessful in turning it into political policy or mandate – because it is contrary to female instinct and females control both the vote, consumer spending, the academy revenues.
So females control the cathedral complex: state, academy, advertising, marketing, consumption, and males control military, finance, and production which services them. Which has led to this problem.
As I remind us constantly – everything is institutions and incentives, and incentives always boil down to reproductive strategy, from which the rest of life is merely an exaggerated representation.
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