In a weird way, that's sort of the reason to read Taleb. It's about 90% posturing and sophist bullshit and 10% legitimate insight, but at least the insight is "

In a weird way, that's sort of the reason to read Taleb. It's about 90% posturing and sophist bullshit and 10% legitimate insight, but at least the insight is "90% of the time intellectuals are just posturing and spouting sophist bullshit." Maybe he's making some meta-demonstration, though more likely he's just really self-unaware, but I've still found it worth reading enough until you realize why you can discount most of it.