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A comment on The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2015). Parent comment

Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by dustinmoris on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:18AM (#20837239)
> I am surprised you have never heard of Taleb before. He is quite controversial, but often deeply original and almost never boring.

Yeah, probably fault due to my own ignorance/bubble in which I live. But I like reading controversial but cleverly put together essays. I like it when someone challenges my own views with a well thought through argument, because that is the best way to either learn something new, or at least learn to understand other people better. So either way I feel like I always walk away as a winner whether I agree or disagree in the end. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by coldtea on Friday August 30, 2019 @06:26AM (#20837278)
>But I like reading controversial but cleverly put together essays. I like it when someone challenges my own views with a well thought through argument,

Try Chesterton then. A little old but still relevant. E.g. could try Heretics.

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Re:The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small M... by kthejoker2 on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:35AM (#20838432)
Or Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell.

Or almost anything by Orwell; his crankiness knows no limits.

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