Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish..
Depending on which way you want to take this I am calling Taleb a dictator of sorts, some, like Steven Pinker, say belligerent. Accused by Taleb as being a science writer I thought the ideal response would be to thank Nassim for his compliment of Science writers everywhere...
The insinuation is dualistic with illusions of an allusion. Narratives in nature are anthropomorphic, as is our God-concept. More than an ideal of an ideal, the embodiment has edified the social consciousness (being really careful here).