You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. 'Educated philistines' have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Under opacity, incomplete information, and partial understanding, much of what we don't understand is labeled "irrational".

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.

We love imperfection, the right kind of imperfection; we pay up for original art and typo-laden first editions.