Typical, in most societies, "faith-based" moral systems have factored in large concerns about the survival of the group from the improbable.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Why "Black Swans" can destroy parasitic individualists (like me?)
I wanted to share a link to a couple of tweets from
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “Skin in the Game” (2018) regarding the moral
consequences of “Black Swans”. The first tweet is this.
One of these insights is that personal damage (or
damage to your cohort) can be minimized by reducing global connectivity and enabling
localism or local self-sufficiency. Of course,
on the surface, this comports with supporters of the Second Amendment and
self-reliance. But this more significance
to “non-comformists” who don’t fit in well with their family or social climate
of origin, and use globalism to to establish their influence with the world, without
close relationships with people who would actually have their backs
(reciprocally) in a personal way. In a
sense, they have outflanked those who restricted their freedom, and are taken
down when something external (a natural catastrophe, or a terror attack born
out of resentment) destroys them. It’s a
very ugly thing when it happens.
Prager U has talked about the difference between “anywhere’s”
and “somewhere’s” and the moral tension between them as explaining why Trump
won in 2016.
But the more I ponder this, the more I see the point
of the far Left’s trying to force all our individualists to admit our
vulnerability and join their intersection groups. However, most people alive today on the far
Left didn’t live through the time when we had the male-only Vietnam-era
military draft, with a deferment system for the privileged that lowered their
risk. They don’t get the moral aspect of
sharing risk.
Typical, in most societies, "faith-based" moral systems have factored in large concerns about the survival of the group from the improbable.
Typical, in most societies, "faith-based" moral systems have factored in large concerns about the survival of the group from the improbable.
Taleb also shared some cartoon material about Black
Swan’s that looks like pages from a graphic novel.
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