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I would never have expected something like this from David Brooks (Original Post)
BigBearJohn
Jul 2019
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betsuni
(25,614 posts)1. I'm not surprised. I loved his "Bobos in Paradise."
He can be very good when talking about his generation. He really should have concentrated on social science and not politics.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)2. Thanks for posting this
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)3. Kicked and recommended
Thanks for the thread BigBearJohn.
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)4. He's one schizophrenic mess
will he stick with his intellectual elitism and conservative exploitation ideology, or become one of the Weavers as he calls them?
He's looking for a way out of the materialism he has lived and supported that has made the world so bad
I suppose there's hope if he sees the light, but I'll believe it when he lives it
Paladin
(28,272 posts)5. That's nice.
Now go back to fucking yourself, Mr. Brooks.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)6. He's desperately trying
....to distance himself from the Repug mess he helped create, "Mr. Both Sides are The Same Brooks".
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)7. You can polish a turd all you want, but you still a have turd!