Taleb, Women, and The Cathedral

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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