When you define yourself as "localist", nobody frames you in the "partisan" box; both the "left" & the "right" take you for one of them. The onl… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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When you define yourself as "localist", nobody frames you in the "partisan" box; both the "left" & the "right" take you for one of them. The only people in favor of centralization are lobbyists, bureaucrats, & DC parasites. Yet the world is centralizing.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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