{"id":4168,"date":"2012-02-22T03:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T11:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2012-02-22T03:48:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T11:48:11","slug":"diseases-conditions-and-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/diseases-conditions-and-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Diseases, conditions, and descriptions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Diseases, conditions, and descriptions &#8220;discovered&#8221; over the past hundred years should be treated as purely invented or the result of diseases of civilization.<\/p>\n<p>The same with psychological classifications such as &#8220;type A personality&#8221;, &#8220;left brain&#8221;, &#8220;passive-aggressive&#8221; &amp; other TED-style stereotypes). Actually I would go further: if it is not in Montaigne, it is neofake, neomania, and will go away replaced with another such classifiction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Nassim-Nicholas-Taleb\/13012333374\">Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diseases, conditions, and descriptions &#8220;discovered&#8221; over the past hundred years should be treated as purely invented or the result of diseases of civilization. The same with psychological classifications such as &#8220;type A personality&#8221;, &#8220;left brain&#8221;, &#8220;passive-aggressive&#8221; &amp; other TED-style stereotypes). Actually I would go further: if it is not in Montaigne, it is neofake, neomania, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}