tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post5129791748770569638..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks, The Swimmerdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-37365791819443051802017-02-03T18:02:32.994-06:002017-02-03T18:02:32.994-06:00Thank you. That's all!Thank you. That's all!C.J. Pitchfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11700114298682641933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-42874159313590525372017-02-03T13:27:07.946-06:002017-02-03T13:27:07.946-06:00Myths.
"America culminates history."
... Myths.<br /><br />"America culminates history."<br /><br /> Sure it does. In precisely the same way that every living creature believes its kind to be the culmination of evolution.<br /><br /> David Brooks is an idiot.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-73552527424702565302017-02-03T13:25:07.403-06:002017-02-03T13:25:07.403-06:00tom skrev:
My guess is once the tax cuts are pass...tom skrev:<br /><br /><i>My guess is once the tax cuts are passed and signed, Trump/Bannon are going to get a sit down about they can play Nazi and shit talk Mexico all they want, but this "American First" protectionist bullshit is to NEVER fuck with market fundamentals again.</i><br /><br />Probably something like Arthur Jensen's famous explanation of the primal forces of nature to Howard Beale, which our host surprisingly doesn't seem ever to have quoted and I can't find on my Tumblr, so I'll <a href="http://www.carrothers.com/network.htm" rel="nofollow">link to it</a> from somewhere else.<br /><br /><i>You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country and now they must put it back. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity. It is ecological balance. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians, no east, no west, no Communists, no Third Worlds. There is only one holistic system of systems. One vast and immane[nt], interwoven, interactive, multi-variant, multi-national dominion of dollars; Petrol-dollars, electro-dollars, Yens, Pounds, Rubles and sheckles. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the stucture of the world today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic, and galactic structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and you will atone. Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?</i>Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89618163858860310442017-02-03T13:09:31.684-06:002017-02-03T13:09:31.684-06:00You and your damn facts!
Why this is like Kelly A...You and your damn facts!<br /><br />Why this is like Kelly Anne Conway's Bowling Green Massacre.<br />Sure it didn't happen, but it would have been a terrible thing if it had!<br />Alt reality is just as real as alt facts and deserves the same respect!bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-9301334443462147552017-02-03T13:04:37.999-06:002017-02-03T13:04:37.999-06:00I think if I wanted to I could make the case that ...I think if I wanted to I could make the case that the NYT would sell papers equally or greater than it do with Brooks in its op pages.<br /><br />It is difficult for me to assume Brooks brings in readers who purchases the paper to read his opining. To the contrary, It is more plausible that Brooks is simply a space filler. I mean, If not Brooks to provide the essence of conservatism to the NYT conservative (achem) readers. Then who?<br /><br />Jonah Goldberg and his (keep the stained dress) mother? The return of Bloody Bill?<br />How about another helping of Sour Krauthammer<br />If the NYT's decided to have the conservative ideals represented in written opinion.<br />Who better to provide such a clear dreary, illogical, unfounded , hypocritical. A clear expressed view of the delusioned loyal soul of a conservative. In which all other branches of the thorny tumbleweed dieology can be defined. That those others, who will tell you they are not republican they are conservative or that they are not that kind of conservative. <br />May look out and find self pride in being part of "something" they say they are not aligned with.<br />To give the NYT credit for (filling space) or providing the essence of conservatism through the torrid life and times of Brooks and his Cabby Gurus. Portrayed as a flounder lost at sea who finds principle and values and identity of who he is not and never has been. In those ocean depths of dark cold nowheres.<br /><br />I guess to summarize,<br />If not Brooks to fill a mandatory conservative today example. perhaps the NYT filled the space on that page with someone who provides the clarity and the life devotion portrayal of what best invokes the life's living by the ideology and how a conservative (in this case Brooks) invokes how the ideal of conservatism applied to human beings only contradicts one another in the virtue of self loathing, enjoyment of others suffering to ease one's everlasting agony that is never resolved by masochism and self flogging.<br />Sure he is paid well and the money will never buy him his utopia that does not exist.<br /><br />What the NYT provides for me with Books's employment is the appreciation for the arts.<br />In this case Music of the arts. Specifically in the lyrics to a song by the Alan parsons Project.<br />Titled, "I wouldn't want to be like you". <br /><br />So until I can confirm the NYT is putting conservatism on display to learn of what not to allow one" soul to be inescapably captured and chained in misery. The opinion of Brooks is an instructive illustration of the horrors of committing to live your life in such ideological turmoil. To be thankful you have not fallen prey to it. And of course, Beware of the Moors.<br />Now I am reaching way into the darkest hole in the universe that I might find just a glimmer of light when it comes to the explanation of the so called mental prowess of the human race in this day and age. As it pertains to the Brooks phenomenon.<br />Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-19078683742299828122017-02-03T11:07:16.732-06:002017-02-03T11:07:16.732-06:00"The refugee ban has a lot of support. Closin..."The refugee ban has a lot of support. Closing off trade is popular."<br /><br />and right there is why Mr. Brook's rehashed his claptrap from 20 years ago...because Trump/Bannon thought went one EO too far in week one. Instead Trump/Bannon prematurely executivated in public, burned THE wedge issue for 2018, and, worse of all, damaged the Fortune 500 (Brook's paying audience) in the process. <br /><br />My guess is once the tax cuts are passed and signed, Trump/Bannon are going to get a sit down about they can play Nazi and shit talk Mexico all they want, but this "American First" protectionist bullshit is to NEVER fuck with market fundamentals again. <br /><br /><br /><br /> trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-73551379533883971942017-02-03T10:52:46.440-06:002017-02-03T10:52:46.440-06:00If the object of conservatism is to halt progress ...If the object of conservatism is to halt progress and social evolution, then Bobo is the prefect writer for such movement. He hasn't had an original idea in 30 years. Nice post DG.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06518025949949879535noreply@blogger.com