 let me read you something that is written about and this is you know that was page 78 this is page 9 and now he's gone into war and interventionist right intervening in other countries business and he's he talks about Libya here a fair bit and for anyone that's been following politics geopolitics and stuff like this history would look upon the day that the Western powers destroyed Libya as one of the greatest catastrophes in human history in our civilization that's my take right unbelievable and it'll look upon us the citizens of the West that a lot of governments to do this as some of the most selfish ignorant uncaring unfetting people in history really right and Nassim understands this he doesn't go too deep into it but he doesn't just bring up that I believe he either brought it up here or brought it up during lectures that have seen where you know he mentions that there's open slave marks as markets in Libya right now as compared to what Libya was before the Western governments bombed it which was Libya was the country with the highest standard living in Africa country with the highest standard living in Africa in five years six years destroyed by Western powers to have open slave markets wow right and this is what Nassim has to say regarding this mindset right and I'm gonna read just couple paragraphs maybe three paragraphs two and a half paragraphs from page of nine okay and he's just gone into talking about interventionalist those people who went who told us they went to Libya to get rid of a dictator or whatever it is let me read you two and a half paragraphs and don't give up on logic intellect and education because tight but higher order logical reasoning would show that unless one finds some way to reject all empirical evidence advocating regime changes implies also advocating slavery or advocating slavery or some similar degradation of the country since these have been typical outcomes so the intervention into intervention list tasks not only lack practical sense and never learn from history but they even fail at pure reasoning which they drown in elaborate semi semi abstract buzzword buzzword laden discourse there are three flaws one the thing statistics not dynamics to the thing in low not high not high dimensions three the thing in terms of action never interaction okay we will see in more depth throughout the book this default defect of mental reasoning by educated or rather semi-educated fools I I can flesh out the three defects for now right and then he goes into detail talking about what the three defects of intervention list are when they go and wage war on behalf of whatever it is that they are doing right and one of the things that see him as mentioned continuously mentions is politicians right now have no skin in the game they go wage war without paying the price for it right there are numerous leaders in the Western world who have committed war crimes wars of aggression line blatantly all of that has come out and what happened in 2008 with Obama coming to power he turned around and turned to the world and said war crimes have been committed but let's move on forget about the war crimes that were committed okay it's no it's no use going and dealing with all these difficult choices that the people that came to power before him were into power or the heads the talking heads that were making waging war right it's no use prosecuting them for war crimes right that's what one of the major things that the Obama administration that so they they normalized war crimes right crimes against humanity which is one of the reasons we're seeing everything's happening right those who don't take risk and I had it this those who don't take risks have skin in the game should never be involved in making decisions that's fantastic which is one of the reasons Nassim leaves in the draft when a nation goes to war the draft must be in play because everyone has equal chance of going to war it's not just those who have no out right they have no job prospects they have no no prospects of going to the cost or to a higher they haven't jumped through the right hoops to go into some kind of higher education or what not or academic education I won't say higher education because there's plenty of education to be had living life right just something else I've highlighted regarding the subheader warlords are still around right the idea of skin in the game is woven into history historically all warlords and war mongers were warriors themselves and with a few curious exceptions societies were one run by risk take risk takers not risk transfers and that's one phrase that he uses risk transfer which is politicians now and corporations now they transfer risk on to others on to citizens on to us right they are not held accountable so this is what he says regarding again subtitle systems learned by removing so quote now if you're going to highlight only one single section from this book here is the one the interventionist intervention list case is central to our story because it shows how absence of skin in the game has both ethical and epitomological effects related to knowledge right I had to look that up before but he's actually put it in brackets as well right epitomological related to knowledge we saw that intervention list as don't learn because they are not the victims of their mistakes and we hinted at with Pathima Mathematica right what we talked about which is God you're learning through pain the same mechanisms of transferring risk again he's highlighted this is he's I he's put in italics right this the same mechanisms of transferring risk also impede learning right so if we're transferring risk to other people we're not learning right which is what happened in 2008 when Obama came to power and said we're not gonna look into what happened with the war crimes that were committed in Afghanistan and rock torture around the globe with black sites and stuff like this we're not gonna look into that right nothing was learned the same mechanisms of transferring risk also impede learning right