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“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”

>> No.12051656

>>12051647
Sprezz'ed and Med-pilled.

>> No.12051657

>>12051647
Extremely based

>> No.12051669

>>12051647
This ROMAN man is my favorite meme philosopher

>> No.12051674

Completely disagree, even though it pains me as a procrastinator. All invention and development in the world has come from autistic tier focus and consistency and dedication. Not living like a chimp.

Being born in 2000 and lazing around the modern world where people have already built sewers and electrical infrastructure etc is a lucky privilege, not the natural order.

>> No.12051701

Never post this squid ink eating fuck again

>> No.12051702

>>12051674
This is where literature differs from coding or pumping iron
>autistic-tier focus
is not rewarded when the task requires a diffuse, creative investigation (along with a sense of awe and joy).

>> No.12051723
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>>12051702
t. retarded and bad at art

>> No.12051727

>>12051647
Based Arab.

>> No.12051728

You know this guy is actually cool as fuck. Too bad hes a phoenician.

t. Puntite

>> No.12051733

I'm never sure if any of these Taleb quotes are real, and I don't care enough to look them up on Google to check.

>> No.12051737

>>12051723
Joyce was notoriously lazy

>> No.12051743

>>12051647
Could this camel jockey be any more irrelevant?

>> No.12051749
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>>12051737
Yes and?

>> No.12051755

>>12051647
>it's my soul fighting modernity
>indolence is the soul of modernity
Just what the fuck did he mean by this?

>> No.12051773

Young Taleb was hot.

>> No.12051780
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>>12051773

>> No.12051782
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>>12051733
They are from his book, "The Bed of Procustes"

>> No.12051793

>>12051780
>100% white genetics

He looks like a convenience store owner or cab driver.

>> No.12051798

>>12051647
Jury's still out on this guy, but I'm glad he's given me a way to justify my procrastination.

>> No.12051801

>>12051793
That's not Taleb retard. The picture even has the person's name, Joe Akl.

>> No.12051802

>>12051701
lmao

>> No.12051818

if there is anything worse than being an NPC autist is being a self justificating idiot

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>>12051801

>> No.12051848

>hanging out with a middle eastern friend
>says he has family visiting from abroad
>apparently this guy's some kind of petty royal
>see his family member later that day; dressed immaculately, perfectly groomed, haughty
>my friend and a bunch of other westernized middle easterners are trying to calm him down
>ask him what's going on
>"He's really pissed, man, he saw a lady driving"
>belly laugh, friend gives me a dubious look

and none of this has anything to do with taleb

>> No.12051888

>>12051848
>In high school
>New kid in class is from Pakistan
>Riding the bus home with him and he has a terrible odor
>Black girls start yelling "This nigga stinking up the bus and shit" and laughing.
>Never see him again.

none of this has anything to do with taleb. I just wonder what happened to him sometimes.

>> No.12051901

>>12051888
>have Lebanese classmates in high school
>they all drive BMWs for some reason, oil money or something
>one day someone draws a penis in the snow that had fallen on one of their BMWs
>Leb spends the entire school day sulking and freaking out and disrupting class to complain about how someone drew a dick in the snow
That guy’s name? N.N. Taleb

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Pic related is Taleb reacting to the NPC meme... a few years before it became a meme.

>> No.12051925

>>12051916
a man trying to get the better of his ego

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>>12051925
...while airbrushing his faults.

>> No.12052190

>>12051647
Maybe you should take a hint and stop shilling this shit all the time, OP

Oh, and fuck you.

>> No.12052235

>>12051647
Echos of Heidegger. If this quote is real I may have to actually read this fella's work.

>> No.12052240

>>12051749
This, haha

>> No.12052307

>>12052235
I expected myself to hate TBoP, given all that I knew about Taleb but ended up liking it. Maybe if he started out as a poet/aphorist he would have gotten a better reception.

>> No.12052462

>>12051798
This

Also his Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness books were pretty good for someone in my field

>t. quant