Rasho Brezec wrote:CJackson wrote:That is some seriously dumb stuff Rasho.
Historically my family and those from generations before myself I knew growing up didn't fall for BS communisn, were not Stalinists and Maoist. What a crock. My family were staunchly against false patriot bullies like Joe McCarthy, not something you would particularly understand.
And the idea that having strong opposition to an idiot succubus like Trump means you are the kind of person who is prone to prescribing all forms of manners and habits to others is more of your ludricrous fixation on exposing political correctness.
That is an incredibly dumb article and you think it is brilliant.
It's okay, plenty of people have a problem keeping up with Mr. Taleb, he's just that much smarter than everyone.
You're like a fisherman who on a bad day at sea will still present a half-dead trout caught in a sewer as if it is a sea bass and say you had a good day of work.
That you actually think I am not fully aware of Taleb and his work is pretty comical unto itself. He has done some good work, but unfortunately the success of the Black Swan pumped up his arrogant self-assumption at being a world class prognositcator when that article you cited shows he is prone to writing some of the most turgid and useless swill imaginable.
Look at this phrase:
"Beware the semi-erudite who thinks he is an erudite. He fails to naturally detect sophistry."
Who is he kidding here? He is engaged in full-blown sophistry in that article. For example, this doozy:
"While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote, with some equivalence for foreign elite schools and PhDs as these are needed in the club."
WTF is that? That is pure drivel and BS.
The whole article shows he is the one guilty of trying to look smart by coining a new abbreviation with which to lump together and brow beat a group he wishes to disdain. Instead of actually just voicing his concerns he shows he is the one with the intellectual vanity by blathering about IYY's as if he is a really clever boy who nailed his target.
That chit is weak
