Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quote
Indeed, people tend to fool themselves with their self-narrative of national identity, which, in a breakthrough paper in Science by sixty-five authors, was shown to be a total fiction. (National traits might be great for movies, they might help a lot with war, but they are Platonic notions that carry no empirical validity—yet, for example, both the English and the non-English erroneously believe in an English national temperament.)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Indeed, people tend to fool themselves with their self-narrative of national identity, which, in a breakthrough paper in Science by sixty-five authors, was shown to be a total fiction. (National traits might be great for movies, they might help a lot with war, but they are Platonic notions that carry no empirical validity—yet, for example, both the English and the non-English erroneously believe in an English national temperament.)