Sitting on the world’s optimum trade route, and taxing everything that goes through it, and destroying every people within it, and stagnating them, is NOT a measure of success. Being either end of the bronze age (w & e) and continuously innovating science (w), and reason (e) are.
Source date (UTC): 2019-01-01 16:43:56 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1080142591621033984
Reply addressees: @nntaleb @charlesmurray
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1079549079099768832
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@nntaleb
That was what I tried to convey to that hawker-mountebank Charles Murray @charlesmurray when he wrote his gerrymandering book on how the “West” was great, redefining West as whatever has been recently successful.
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1079549079099768832
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