Saturday, January 03, 2009

THE OPIATES OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES

By Nassim Taleb




We humans are naturally gullible — disbelieving requires an extraordinary expenditure of energy. It is a limited resource. I suggest ranking the skepticism by its consequences on our lives. True, the dangers of organized religion used to be there — but they have been gradually replaced with considerably ruthless and unintrospective social-science ideology.


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