Jan 27, 2013 11:54
Taleb again: "Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation."
This post-heroic absence of agitation. I've been looking since my early-mid-20s - from the just-post-Paul time onward - for such a wonderful formulation of it!
Too: NNT is down on modernity but likes civilization. I'm the opposite. There's probably a lot to grok from that.