This article by Nassim Taleb is mentioned by Newt Gingrich and he says it is the best article he has read and is obviously what Trump and his team intend to sort out in order to turn America round.
'suggesting you have a go at avoiding endless tedious references to Blair, elitism, Oxbridge etc has nothing to do with political correctness '
Unfortunately, Nassim Taleb mentions most of those, including Blair
It touches on the points that I and others have made throughout these threads. We are run by idiots from Oxbridge, "out of touch" geeks and nerds like Miliband or Osborne. Fortunately Theresa May is now in charge and she has common sense and has got rid of most of the idiots, so things are getting better and of course Trump will transform everything.
The article mentions the populist revolution with Modi (which was very moving as hundreds of millions of Indians voted for hope and change, just like Americans did when they voted for Trump) which of course the BBC and Oxbridge idiots were against and the BBC and Oxbridge teams slagged Modi off just as they now slag Trump off.
The article also mentions the disastrous policies in Libya and Syria, as has been mentioned in these threads and which Trump has opposed. Taleb even mentions Brexit and obviously Oxbridge.
Taleb calls these people who rule us IYIs "intellectual yet idiots", Trump calls them "very, very stupid people", we call them the Oxbridge teams and Blairites, I don't know what Modi called them.
"The Intellectual Yet Idiot
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligentsia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island
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people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats who feel entitled to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking.
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The IYI (Intellectual Yet Idiot) seems ubiquitous in our lives but is still a small minority and is rarely seen outside specialized outlets, think tanks, the media, and universities — most people have proper jobs and there are not many openings for the IYI.
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The IYI pathologizes others for doing things he doesn’t understand without ever realizing it is his understanding that may be limited. He thinks people should act according to their best interests and he knows their interests, particularly if they are “red necks” or English non-crisp-vowel class who voted for Brexit. When plebeians do something that makes sense to them, but not to him, the IYI uses the term “uneducated”. What we generally call participation in the political process, he calls by two distinct designations: “democracy” when it fits the IYI, and “populism” when the plebeians dare voting in a way that contradicts his preferences.
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Those in the U.K. have been taken for a ride by Tony Blair.
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he advocated the “removal” of Gadhafi because he was “a dictator”, not realizing that removals have consequences (recall that he has no skin in the game and doesn’t pay for results).
medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577#.drax6273p
It seems like Trump and the Trump Revolution will end rule by the IYIs (the intellectuals yet idiots). Bad news for the think tanks and the Oxbridge teams.
