I don’t drink alcohol very much at all, because I don’t like it -- what it does to me, and what it does to society.
the fuck outta here with this hit
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 January 2014 00:57 (ten years ago) link
*shit
all these pundits pop mad pills #knowledge
― lag∞n, Saturday, 4 January 2014 00:58 (ten years ago) link
http://twitter.com/leyawn/status/419133339828629504/photo/1
― balls, Saturday, 4 January 2014 06:59 (ten years ago) link
I don't mean to ask the stupid obvious question here, but what exactly has marijuana done to 'society'?
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Saturday, 4 January 2014 09:18 (ten years ago) link
its a lesser pleasure
― lag∞n, Saturday, 4 January 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/counter_narrative/2014/01/david_brooks_smoking_pot_should_black_kids_pay_for_his_pothead_sins.html
― lag∞n, Saturday, 4 January 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
He needs to have a couple beers and relax
― calstars, Sunday, 5 January 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 5 January 2014 00:15 (ten years ago) link
The emergence of boutique hotels reflects a broader trend toward a more experientially rich commercial world.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:39 (ten years ago) link
It seems as if there is an endless supply of middle-class consumers who have boutique identities and aspirations, especially among people in their 20s. Consumers now use hotels differently. They bring their laptops down to the lobby rather than working in their rooms. Fewer people bother to unpack their bags. Therefore, room desks and closets are less important, but having a happening lobby scene is more important. People need a civic space where they can have their contiguous but individualized iPad experiences.
Boutique hotels are, on one level, kind of ridiculous. They are almost invariably too dark throughout, making it hard to read. The bed is often too low. The bathroom door is sometimes a flimsy sliding shutter, sacrificing privacy for style.
But they do exemplify a shift in the consumer market, which you might call the shift from the lima bean economy to the edamame economy
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Ha ha. I saw that headline but have not yet forced myself to read the column.
This was kinda funny:
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2014/01/03/ruth-marcus-and-david-brooks-smoke-pot-a-play-in-one-act/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
^^ world needed these insights
― Hungry4Sassafrass (Aimless), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
david brooks reminds me of that quote from good morning america: "You are in more dire need of a blow job than any white man in history"
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
A basic rule of happiness is don’t buy things; buy experiences.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
this might be the paradigmatic Brooks column
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
did anything prompt this column? did dave leave the house or something?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:49 (ten years ago) link
he left his Manhattan penethouse, crossed the street, entered boutique hotel lobby, ordered gimlet.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Consumers have been educated by the market and now the median level of cultural competence is much higher.
well thank god
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
freedom to make mistakes as a young person is probably one of the biggest and most underrated advantages of being affluent in this country (or, conversely, lack of freedom to do so is one of the biggest setbacks of being poor in this country).
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
good morning america's gotten pretty racy lately
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
good morning america: the xxx parody!
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
LOLLLLLLLL
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:08 (ten years ago) link
whoops
(vietnam, obvs)
cf. "highest pleasures" "deeper sources of happiness"
― jmm, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
flashbacks xp
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 January 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
Brooks was a former marijuana smoker, but quit after a traumatic event during English class. [42]
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
#livelikesteve
― ★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist), Saturday, 11 January 2014 03:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/opinion/brooks-the-inequality-problem.html?ref=davidbrooks&_r=2
Asshole
― you are kind, I am (waterface), Friday, 17 January 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
David Brooks columns are just like blah blah blah to me at this point
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 January 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
"hi i'm david brooks and i've thought a lot about poverty in the last couple of hours"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 January 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Like as soon as someone says "because of the 'Superstar Effect'" is when I start stuffing them into the trunk of my car while they are still talking
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 January 2014 15:37 (ten years ago) link
"look, it's just the way things are"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
knew this was gonna come down to the fraying social fabric
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 January 2014 15:56 (ten years ago) link
jobs for young men
― andrew m., Friday, 17 January 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
If you have a primitive zero-sum mentality then you assume growing affluence for the rich must somehow be causing the immobility of the poor, but, in reality, the two sets of problems are different, and it does no good to lump them together and call them “inequality.”
taking this seriously for a sec, it DOES make sense to lump them together. doing anything to improve the position of the poor requires breaking the political power of the rich, since their party (or parties, hi morbs!) stands in the way.
― goole, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
assortative mating
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Friday, 17 January 2014 16:14 (ten years ago) link
superstar effect mating wink wink
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
these two aspects of the economy are totally unrelated why cant you seeeeee it is because ur so frayed out
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
I wonder how that's going for Brooks post-divorce, the assortative mating thing
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 17 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
lot of assorted mating around my way dave, come hang out. be cool tho, people smoke.
― goole, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
"fraying of the social fabric" oh noes slatternly teen wenches are allowing the fabric to fray by having babies!
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Friday, 17 January 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
(*teens are having fewer babies than they have in forty years)
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
why let the facts get in the way of airy and heavily loaded generalisations about "social fabric"?
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Friday, 17 January 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
theres no reason to when you think about it and are smart and reasonable and a horrific nerd
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
why can't you smart-asses just drop the partisanship and start from where we all agree: conservative talking points
― bnw, Friday, 17 January 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
"The incomes of the top 5% have soared even as wages for 75% of Americans have been flat for 30 years, even though their productivity has doubled; and there's a smaller and smaller tax base as those same 5% fight for lower and lower taxes and move their money out of the US, and therefore less money for things like decent schools, but I'm sure none of these things are connected and its deadbeat dads all the way down."
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 17 January 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
David Brooks' Social Fabric Softener: All the comforts of knowing your affluence is well-earned, none of the static cling of grasping, guilt-inducing poor people.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 January 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
tbf, brooks is otm that lack of sittlichtkeit is primary challenge of contemporary society
― Mordy , Friday, 17 January 2014 16:35 (ten years ago) link