Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish..
Depending on which way you want to take this I am calling Taleb a dictator of sorts, some, like Steven Pinker, say belligerent. Accused by Taleb as being a science writer I thought the ideal response would be to thank Nassim for his compliment of Science writers everywhere...
Biblical I am sure, the romanticism of El is a blatant assumption of King and Country and Deity. Coupled to the past hardly resembles a choice, yet the thematic 'rembrancers' asks, Why Iota ask Why?
