{"id":4813,"date":"2012-10-07T21:34:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T04:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2012-10-07T21:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T04:34:15","slug":"epiphanies-from-nassim-nicholas-taleb-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/epiphanies-from-nassim-nicholas-taleb-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Epiphanies from Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Foreign Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>There are three categories of things: Fragile things that break, like the financial system; robust things that don&#8217;t break easily but don&#8217;t improve, like the Brooklyn Bridge; and my new category, &#8220;antifragile&#8221; things that gain strength from stressors and get stronger from failure, like evolution. The fundamental problem in foreign policy is that people shoot for stability rather than antifragility.<\/p>\n<p>The most stable country in the history of mankind, and probably the most boring, by the way, is Switzerland. It&#8217;s not even a city-state environment; it&#8217;s a municipal state. Most decisions are made at the local level, which allows for distributed errors that don&#8217;t adversely affect the wider system. Meanwhile, people want a united Europe, more alignment, and look at the problems. The solution is right in the middle of Europe &#8212; Switzerland. It&#8217;s not united! It doesn&#8217;t have a Brussels! It doesn&#8217;t need one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/10\/08\/epiphanies_from_nassim_nicholas_taleb\">Epiphanies from Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Foreign Policy<\/a>.<br \/>HatTip to Dave Lull (Thanks Dave!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three categories of things: Fragile things that break, like the financial system; robust things that don&#8217;t break easily but don&#8217;t improve, like the Brooklyn Bridge; and my new category, &#8220;antifragile&#8221; things that gain strength from stressors and get stronger from failure, like evolution. The fundamental problem in foreign policy is that people shoot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530,1],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragility-2","category-contributors","tag-dave-lull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","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=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}