Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

The Messianic illusion is that a single person σωτήρ (or, worse, a single action) will come to save the world, fix society, improve the economy, rescue the company, etc. But advance comes from distributed progressive improvements, via negativa, mostly thanks to funerals. — PolitiTweet.org

Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb

2) Notes + Compare the French Revolution (which set back democracy more than 60 years) to the English progressive constitutional monarchy [and... it is still a monarchy] + What you see with the Lebanese election is largely the result that ~170,000 voters have died since 2018. — PolitiTweet.org