Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
Nassim Nicholas TalebStichwörter: values post-modernism modernity values-in-life post-modern modern-values
They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.
Nassim Nicholas TalebStichwörter: wisdom intelligence priorities values truths wealth-and-virtues modern-values
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
Nassim Nicholas TalebStichwörter: celebrity values sports role-models celebrities sportsmanship role-model celebrity-culture sportsman modern-values
The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
Nassim Nicholas TalebStichwörter: fear death religion values modern modern-life narcissism modernity evangelism modern-values modernity-is-sickness
...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.
Nassim Nicholas TalebStichwörter: nerd nerds clarity-of-thought modernity modernity-is-a-sickness fragility nerdiness modern-values internet-addiction robustness wisdom-vs-nerdiness
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