Nassim Taleb has been saying the same thing about modern institutions for years. In Antifragile, he argues that nature never optimizes the way planners and metrics-obsessed managers do. Evolution keeps redundancy and optionality. Narrow optimization removes these things in the name of efficiency, which might seem better but creates systems that become fragile to shocks they can’t measure in advance. Local knowledge, judgment, and the messy tolerance for error that once allowed adaptation get treated as defects to be engineered away.
“This isn’t Iraq”
Please, someone explain to these unbearable American baboons that Iraq/Mesopotamia is literally the cradle of human civilization.
Any random dusty village in Iraq has more heritage, culture and history than all Anglo societies combined.
In the past five days, Israel 🇮🇱 has:
• Started a war with Iran 🇮🇷
• Massacred starving Gazans waiting for food 🇵🇸
• Bombed Lebanon 🇱🇧
• Bombed Syria 🇸🇾
• Carried out a naval attack on the port of Hodeidah, Yemen 🇾🇪
• Kidnapped Greta Thunberg 🇸🇪🇪🇺