There’s an old joke, I can’t remember it well enough to do anything but paraphrase, basically, that learning doesn’t progress because new information arises and everyone integrates it into their own learning/teaching, but because the opponents gradually die off.
I’m 81, and my wife is close to 80.
We have commented about our lives based on your posting above.
She laughs about how I began to eliminate the losers/idiots in my life at 40 and had basically finished that task at age 50. Then, I took early retirement at age 56 and finished up ridding the losers in my company and customers. That wasn’t just people. I eliminated most tv, movies, magazines.
We cut our tv cable 3 years ago.
Your analogy...LOL
In separating the wheat from the chaff I’ve found far more chaff than decades earlier.
Hey Dave. Then you are a bit like your beloved Nassim Taleb, another guy who doesn’t suffer fools.
And how, may I ask, are you and your wife keeping busy in your retirement years? Cheers.