This absence of literary culture is actually a marker of future blindness because it is usually accompanied by a denigration of history, a byproduct … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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This absence of literary culture is actually a marker of future blindness because it is usually accompanied by a denigration of history, a byproduct of unconditional neomania. Outside of the niche and isolated genre of science fiction, literature is about the past. We do not learn physics or biology from medieval textbooks, but we still read Homer, Plato, or the very modern Shakespeare.