Mr. Brooks here.
Balloon Juice links to Mr. Pierce here.
Real Clear Politics links to Mr. Brooks' column here.
Digg fires Mr. Brooks' column across the planet here.
New York magazine writes about Mr. Brooks here.
Mahablog regarding Mr. Brooks here.
Duncan Black's comments about Mr. Brooks now have elicited 145 comments and read as follows:
No Stomach For It TodayMarginal Revolution regarding Mr. Brooks here.
And a bit busy with some stuff. So outsourcing to Pierce...
Alicublog's brief commentary on Mr. Brooks now has 144 comments.
Since Jonathan Chait and Tyler Cowen have written about Mr. Brooks, I assume Mr. Sullivan will be summarizing what other people have to say about Mr. Brooks for the Daily Beast and/or Newsweek magazine presently.
And so forth.
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UPDATE:
Business Insider weighs in.
Forbes is heard from.
The Big Think.
And so forth
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You have written numerous posts about Bobo and, with this one, you point out posts from other writers. That's all well and good but, somehow, this is this one that showed up on Memeorandum. I am now going to go bang my head against the wall.
Ah, Drifty, you've finally gotten thru. Steve Guillard would be proud.
Digg fires Mr. Brooks' column across the planet here.
True dat. As of this comment there are a total of 3 diggs, one of which is probably in U-Becky-Becky-Stan-Stan whose capital is U-Cain-Cain-Cain't Touch This.
Brooks & Murray are also dissected in front of a live audience in Second Life, (by Jay Ackroyd et al); dissection is broadcast at the same time on blogtalkradio.
I suggest, Driftglass, change your POV about Brooks. Try rating his' columns according to how awesomely BAD they are. Today, Brooks may have reached true awesomeness.
-- N.Owl
Also Roy Edroso and TBogg, but both already had fun skewering Murray, so they're follow-ups.
Jeez, DG, jump on the bandwagon, already!
(Or consider it outsourcing...)
Who could have predicted this progression of events?
And I'm sure Bobo got that tan on the beach of some Red State - he'd never go to Spain or France!
that was blogenfreude before I fucked up the comment
Well, if they aren't marching with torches and pitchforks, they are at least gathering in the street. While all the links are wonderful to wade through, the true bliss was found in the Times' comments to the article, which were turned all the way up to eleven in their vitriol.
Bobo is more than likely pleased as the criticisms were coming from both sides fairly equally.
Oh, man. I am so looking forward to this week's podcast.
The part that stings me the most about this latest Brooks excretion is this statement:
"Members of the lower tribe work hard and dream big, but are more removed from traditional bourgeois norms. They live in disorganized, postmodern neighborhoods in which it is much harder to be self-disciplined and productive."
First, there is the nonsense of "postmodern neighborhood." As if all these poor whites (and that is the enthymeme that animates this corpse: Murray's book is all about the Caucasian Problem, ie, why are all these white people starting to behave like shiftless minorities) created these neighborhoods by semiotic deconstruction.
Murray and Brooks desperately want to make this a values argument. Positing these two extremes that are tearing the social fabric apart makes it easy for Brooke et al to elide the fundamental problem of POWER. For it is the power of the elite wealth in this nation that made these "postmodern neighborhoods."
The poor didn't have a fucking choice in the matter. We subsist and survive as zoning, housing bubbles, and class segregation via gates, cameras and control of police was dictated upon us. The wreckage of our metropolitan areas and outlying industrial zones lies squarely at the foot of the neoliberal hucksters that broke apart a system that worked in exchange for a veil of an "entitlement society" that disguised a return to feudalism.
The fact is the super wealthy devised a margin loan scam (AGAIN) shrouded by the marketing scheme known as the American Dream. And David Brooks is so fucking ensconced in that pathetic community that he has to blame the poors because they somehow fashioned their own misery out of inferior values. And to hitch is trailer to a known fact-fudging racist like Murray is the cherry on the sycophant sundae.
after all these years of leading the horse to water, a few are at last drinking something other than koolaid
Take heart Drifty... according to Bongo S. in a previous comment, you just can't see the effect of your work... because of all the giant eyeballs watching.
Or some such nonsense.
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