Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Quote of the Day: Fatal Conceit

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Once again my favorite heretic, Black Swan author Nassim Taleb does a Hayek like zinger—against the intellectuals—at his Facebook page but at a much unpretentious, bland or even brutal fashion.

Many of the so-called intellects bear the chutzpah to call or recommend the use of force to impose on their overestimated or bloated sense of understanding of the world, which in reality constitutes no more than fatal wishful thinking or deadly utopian fantasies.

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