The author has completely the wrong approach to absorbing wisdom from public intellectuals. Yes, of course every thinker is limited. They produce some beautiful

The author has completely the wrong approach to absorbing wisdom from public intellectuals. Yes, of course every thinker is limited. They produce some beautiful work, some good work, and some mediocre work, some bad work. The trick is to consume the former and avoid the latter. Furthermore, we ought to evaluate writers based on their best work (use max(..) instead of average(..) as the aggregation operator). Of course Nassim Taleb, after getting famous, became cranky and overeager to engage in tawdry public insult-slinging. That does not detract from the beauty and depth of his best work. Of course George RR Martin's later books are not very good, and he will probably not finish the series. That does not reduce the magic of Tyrion Lannister's defense of King's Landing. I could produce an endless stream of examples like this.