Quote from: The Black Swan
“…it is extremely convenient for us to assume that we live in Mediocristan.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My reflections on various topics
“…it is extremely convenient for us to assume that we live in Mediocristan.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
…engaging the demonic.
If “feelings,” “emotions,” and “intuition” guide your life and life’s decisions, then you are a Jungian–a gnosti...
Honesty is much more than not lying. Honesty is about proclaiming the truth, living in truth, and dying in truth. Honesty is about people’s lives and thei...
“You greatly delude yourself and err, if you think that one thing is demanded from the layman and another from the monk; since the difference between them is in...
If you cannot adhere to tradition/Holy Tradition and truth/The Truth, what are you teaching your children? If you can lie before God, why can’t your child...
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb…people who fail do not seem to write memoirs…
How Dante Can Save Your Life by Rod Dreher Sin is not the breaking of moral rules, but a failure of love. We love the wrong things, or we love the right th...
The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers …thus confirming the axiom that education is easier than reeducation.” (Location 933)
It’s a motivating power – to adhere to tradition and Tradition; to stay with the mission; to not sway with the times; to not yield to fear, threat, ...