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Your above point can not be upvoted enough.
You do have to wonder what some people are thinking ;)
Good message from Taleb too, he may not be the most likeable or agreeable person in the world, but he is quite brilliant at synthesizing logical meaning from the inputs he does have.
People not liking Taleb and then dismissing him because he can be rude has always been one of the strangest things that so many people do.
I remember about halfway through Skin in the Game, after being put off by most of what I'd been reading, that the gestalt shift happened and it finally clicked. It's probably one of the best texts I've ever read on a specific type of conservatism. I don't like that I agreed with it, but the guy makes a very, very convincing argument.