I think the Taleb aphorism about wisdom being unattractive in the young doesn’t apply anymore.
The elders of modernity have mostly grown old in vain, to use Buddha’s expression, and lived their long lives without reflection that could have cultivated wisdom.
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it's a strange idea anyway because when studying history you get the sense that people are attracted to wisdom & to wise people, they have and always will be.
Some of those "wise people" would be charlatans, ofc, but others genuinely so. People flock from afar to see both
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