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  1. Vedere l'ultimo film di #DarrenAronofsky dal tiolo #CaughtStealing è stata una grossa sorpresa soprattutto perché in risonanza con i fatti che stanno accadendo negli ultimi giorni con #Gaza e #Israele al centro del mondo

    Diciamo che per una volta non ci sono ossessioni visive o idee compulsive che hanno invece caratterizzato gran parte della sua filmografia (pensiamo per esempio a capolavori come #RequiemforaDream e #piilteoremadeldelirio oppure ai più recenti #BlackSwan o #TheWhale)
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  2. A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, the generator of history. There is a fundamental incompleteness in your grasp of such events, since you do not see what’s inside the box, how the mechanisms work. What I call the generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. You are very likely to be fooled about their intentions.

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
    The Black Swan, Part 1, ch. 1 “The Apprenticeship of an Empirical Skeptic” (2007)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #blackswan #causeandeffect #events #history #interpretation #outcomes #retrospect #rootcause #understanding