Taleb has always struck me as someone who writes not to inform his readers, nor even to entertain them, but rather to make himself sound smart. His books seem t

Taleb has always struck me as someone who writes not to inform his readers, nor even to entertain them, but rather to make himself sound smart. His books seem to be popular among people who also would like to sound smart. With that as my prior, him going on a sudden tirade against IQ tests, and about how everyone with an IQ lower than him is definitely genuinely stupider than him, but everyone with an IQ higher than him is not really smart and they're all just losers who wear socks in their Birkenstocks ... well, it sounds like he took an IQ test and the result sent him into an embarrassed rage. The Birkenstocks picture and its caption supports this theory.