Idea Name
Context / Source
Nassim Nicholas Taleb On Christianity
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Key Idea
Ironically, modernists fall for what I have called the opiate of the middle classes[15], that is social science and stock market speculation. They refuse religion on rational grounds, then fall for economic forecasters, stock market analysts, and psychologists.
See also
How religion failed to compete Why philosophy is better than science