You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of som… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Fuck 'rap is real', watch the herbs stand still
never talkin' to snakes cause the words of man kill true in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins

Our aversion to variability and desire for order, and our acting on those feelings, have helped precipitate severe crises. Making something artificially bigger (instead of letting it die early if it cannot survive stressors) makes it more and more vulnerable to a very severe collapse-as I showed with the Black Swan vulnerability associated with an increase in size.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.