Is Having Enemies Good?
Nassim Taleb writes, “I never trust a man who doesn’t have enemies.”
Presumably, because a person who is reviled clearly stands for something. One can only be loyal to someone or something to the extent that one excludes, marginalizes, selects—and thus, draws ire, envy, hostility. A person beloved by all is a shapeshifter, lacking definition.
Yet if Tale…
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