When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Everyone seems to be making the mistake of ergodicity: The rich of 2015 are NOT necessarily those of 2000. In the U.S. 85% of the rich were not so in earlier periods. These static analyses by economists and psychologists are BS. I noted that only pple w get it.

Different people rarely mean the same thing by religion. Nor do they realise it. For early Jews & Muslims, religion was law. 'Deen' is law in Hebrew, religion in Arabic.

Clearly, an open mind is a necessity when dealing with randomness. Popper believed that any idea of Utopia is necessarily closed owing to the fact that it chokes its own refutations. The simple notion of a good model for society that cannot be left open for falsification is totalitarian. I learned from Popper, in addition to the difference between an open and a closed society, that between an open and a closed mind.