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bffce45 They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom. wisdom priorities wealth-and-virtues modern-values truths values Nassim Nicholas Taleb
51c09dc The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death fear religion modern modern-life modernity-is-sickness modern-values evangelism narcissism modernity values Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ba398d9 ...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my ideas to an opposition of technology when in fact I am opposing the naive blindness to it's side affects - the fragility criterion. I'd rather be unconditional about ethical and conditional about technology than the the reverse. internet-addiction modern-values modernity-is-a-sickness robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness nerdiness nerds fragility nerd modernity Nassim Nicholas Taleb