The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (repost)
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher: Ran dom Hou se 2010 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1400069971 | EPUB | 2 MB
Publisher: Ran dom Hou se 2010 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 1400069971 | EPUB | 2 MB
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.