"End of the left and right? And if the new divide of our political lives is that of the Greeks and the Romans?" It's an interesting new idea... Instead of dividing society by left and right, we should by the theoretical vs the practical...https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1036384767904768000 …
Maybe that's a false assumption. I would argue that some fields are wholly "Greek." For example, I don't think it's possible to be long term successful entrepeneur without being or becoming Roman.
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What's a false assumption exactly? Not sure I follow you.
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My main counterarguments are 1) lots of people care more about symbolic stuff 2) even if we were totally practical we wouldn't agree which society to build soberly, so politics would default to values.
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