RIP David Brooks

Should be condemned to a life of daily correspondence with Tom Friedman, and Tom Friedman only, and vice versa

I never said that but fine.

i... don't think i was even responding to you?

Sometimes you change your mind in ways you never could have imagined. https://t.co/CTIfZ3QY36

— David Brooks (@nytdavidbrooks) March 8, 2019

"Reparations are a drastic policy and hard to execute"

Jesus christ you guys walked on the moon, detonated an atom bomb, have massive destroyer ships on every ship and built the internet. Can we stop talking about reparations like it is some monumental task.

Jesus christ you guys walked on the moon, detonated an atom bomb, have massive destroyer ships on every ship and built the internet. Can we stop talking about reparations like it is some monumental task.

― Van Horn Street

except for "walking on the moon", this can pretty much be filed under "white guys breaking shit". i'm willing to grant the professed incompetence of white dudes, and if they're not up to the challenge of reparations they should find something easier to do with their lives than trying to implement just governance.

David Brooks should die suddenly and peacefully in a testicle-crushing accident.

― 27 Discounts ILXors Get Only If They Know (WmC)

yesterday my newsfeed suggested an article about a shadowy billionaire dying in a botched penis-enlargement surgery. at the time i wasn't sure why google thought i would be interested. now i understand.

tbf walking on the moon seems pretty hard

walking on the moon was also ultimately in service to the cause of white guys breaking shit

walking on the moon is a cop

walking on the moon is a police song

walking on the moon is a snack imo

obligatory

"If Stalin had a Smartphone"

Sometimes you change your mind in ways you never could have imagined.

This seems like the line that would be on the bottom of the poster for a really bad movie about David Brooks getting a black friend

Each would learn something from the other

Hahahaha

it would win best picture

it did.

again

rod dreher has had enough of these scurrilous scurrilisms

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5ZvFI3X4AE6cQs.jpg:small

wait...what's going on?

he published a book

yes. I and everyone I know can't get enough of gossiping about David Brooks and his wife. it's an all-consuming passion.

It's pretty ridiculous to presume evangelical religiosity is relevant on the subject of premarital sex, except insofar as there's more hypocrisy and guilt.

incandescent, sounds hot

Nothing could be more typical of the contempo evangelical approach to sex morality than "he dumped the mother of his children, the woman who helped him build his career for decades, by the side of the road and took up with a young hottie, but he didn't actually pull his pants down until he was legally divorced, so how dare you impugn, you monstrous scolds, oh and plus, I too think she's hot"

Do we really know he “dumped her by the side of the road” and it wasn’t a mutual divorce? It’s not unthinkable to me that his former wife got sick of him.

To get sick of David Brooks is to be sick of life itself.

Lol good samuel johnson paraphrase. Something you won’t see in the youtube comments!

Do we really know he “dumped her by the side of the road” and it wasn’t a mutual divorce? It’s not unthinkable to me that his former wife got sick of him.

I concede this is a reasonable question.

His ex wife should have dumped him by the side of the road and run over him with a car full of remaindered copies of Bobos in Paradise.

lmao old dudes are gross

I did enjoy reading his piece in the NYT yesterday about living in an era defined by fear

omfg The New Yorker has a profile about Brooks, can I die

Did you guys know that the term “bobo” actually caught on in france?

The real heart of the Socialist Party turned out to be its progressive urban rich—les bobos, as they are called, after a coinage of David Brooks’s. Macron managed to woo them all away.

https://newrepublic.com/article/153507/france-yellow-vests-uprising-emmanuel-macron-technocratic-insiders

This appeared in an excellent magazine:

For Brooks, this is a turn in both subtle and obvious ways: his point of view from early in his career was that of an affectionate theorist of social behavior, and that position depended upon the studied suppression of himself as a character. Although he came of age writing for The Weekly Standard, and has long held the amiable conservative’s chairs on “PBS NewsHour” and the Times opinion page, Brooks has never been an especially opinionated voice; in his best work, the details he notices seem to add up to a critique. “

both subtle and obvious

he came of age writing for The Weekly Standard,

can I poll these sentences

I take a pretty laissez fair and bobo approach to polls myself so yeah go for it

being there: the david brooks story

“In my experience,” he writes, “a telos crisis comes in two forms, walking and sleeping.” Couples experience eight stages of intimacy. “There are four kinds of unkindness that drive couples apart."

(1) Turns both subtle and obvious
(2) Coming of age writing for The Weekly Standard
(3) Detailing trowels or grills
(4) “Jesus is the person who shows us what giving yourself away looks like.”

It’s so wild to me when people say they’re absolutely certain someone they know didn’t do x y or z. I wouldn’t say that about my best friend or my sibling, man. You don’t know what people are capable of!

but god told him so

There are four kinds of unkindness

this stuff makes you long for the hard-edged realpolitik of a thomas friedman

each unkindness can be turbocharged to an even lower kindness level by any one of nine cruelties

i swear now I see Brooks stuff or stuff about him and the only logical conclusion is that there is a high level media conspiracy to troll Alfred

Did you guys know that the term “bobo” actually caught on in france?

It comes from Bourgeois Bohème, and Brooks most definitely didn't make it up, it's been around for ages in France (Paris).

Trivia: It caught on in the Netherlands from 1988 on when Ruud Gullit called annoying sports directors, who are too prominent, 'bobo's', from Bondsbons.

lbi otm