"Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts—we
humans, facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the
unseen and the unknown, resolve the tension by squeezing life and the
world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific
vocabularies, and prepackaged narratives, which, on the occasion, has
explosive consequences. Further, we seem unaware of this backward
fitting, much like tailors who take great pride in delivering the
perfectly fitting suit—but do so by surgically altering the limbs of
their customers. For instance few realize that we are changing the
brains of schoolchildren through medication in order to make them adjust
to the curriculum, rather than the reverse"
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb's
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