As an undergrad, I got introduced to a number of groundbreaking ideas by the books and lectures of all three of them. These ideas are still considered to be mostly true today! I owe them a great debt.
you don't? his constant obsession on ancient religion, "Mediterranean" identity, genealogy, traditionalism, and basing his ethics on a mixture of classical stoicism and "tough guy" macho bullshit?
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That's a shallow interpretation. Essentially what he's really describing in these things you mentioned above is the history of multilevel selection. You have to offend some open to rip apart the modern myth of universalism.
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I think his posturing gets in the way of developing compassion, which is a much better basis of an ethical system than anything Taleb is talking about.
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Bravado is indistinguishable from compassion in vajrayana. You gotta be macho to take on the suffering of others and dissolve them into emptiness as a Bodhisattva.
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Avolokiteshvara is androgynous and Guan Yin is feminine
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I'm not meaning to say that the iconography is necessarily authoritative or that there's any "one true path". just that what you've said is at odds with traditional representations.
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