2) The danger of Nationalism is an absorption of values: lives of others don't count: Both H & W Bush counted only U.S. soldiers. For Salafis, l… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

You can imagine how distraught I feel when I hear about the glorified heroism-free “middle class values,” which, thanks to globalization and the Internet, have spread to any place easily reached by British Air, enshrining the usual opiates of the deified classes: “hard work” for a bank or a tobacco company, diligent newspaper reading, obedience to most, but not all, traffic laws, captivity in some corporate structure, dependence on the opinion of a boss (with one’s job records filed in the personnel department), good legal compliance, reliance on stock market investments, tropical vacations, and a suburban life (under some mortgage) with a nice-looking dog and Saturday night wine tasting.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

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