The Bed of Procrustes

《黑天鵝》作者塔勒布用最出人意料的方式表達(dá)了他對這個荒謬世界的看法。

現(xiàn)代文明在給人類生活帶來便利的同時，也產(chǎn)生了不少負(fù)面效應(yīng)——它慣于通過改變?nèi)藖磉m應(yīng)科技，責(zé)怪現(xiàn)實不符合經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)模型，為了推銷藥品而發(fā)明新的疾病，把智力定義為可以在教室里考核的東西，說服人們相信雇傭并不是奴役。

本書認(rèn)為，智慧的每一次失敗，都可以歸結(jié)為削足適履的結(jié)果。作者在書中入木三分地分析了你所處世界的隨機(jī)本質(zhì)，道破人們視而不見的思維陷阱。

本書匯集了塔勒布深入洞察生活的格言，輕松活潑，毫不刻板，但卻能讓你大吃一驚，因為它揭示出你其實無意識地生活在錯覺之中。憑借尖銳的才思和深遠(yuǎn)的智慧，塔勒布為我們剖析了這些錯覺的本質(zhì)，倡導(dǎo)用勇氣、優(yōu)雅和博學(xué)等經(jīng)典價值觀來抵抗庸俗和虛偽等現(xiàn)代病態(tài)。

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 Nassim Nicholas 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.

Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.