Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

@KenatGV I read the passage when he was *riding* high (literally). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 19, 2020 Hibernated

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The Byzantines were considered part of the East (in France, "les orientaux"). Same with Gibbon who was allergic to "Asian" mores and love of luxury . Example: Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy: https://t.co/HCisNz9aup — PolitiTweet.org

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For a long time, until the early 20th C, Byzantines took the attitude "neither East nor West" or "both East or West", or, even better "East and West are a construction outside our interests". — PolitiTweet.org

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