...is the surrealest David Brooks of all.
As we take off the physical masks, it seems important that we take off the psychological masks as well...
And:
More lives are wrecked by the slow and frigid death of emotional closedness than by the short and hot risks of emotional openness...
And then:
My wife and I are printing out our calendars in three-month chunks, so we can get an accurate overview of how we are committing our time. I’m hoping to spend less time at one-off events and more time...
Please don't say "doing butt stuff" please don't say "doing butt stuff" please don't say "doing butt stuff".
...and more time with recurring commitments — groups that meet weekly, monthly or several times a year.
OhThankGod.
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"..and more time with recurring commitments — groups that meet weekly, monthly or several times a year"
... for butt stuff.
I'm so glad I skipped seeing David Bowie on his last tour and went to book club instead. Little platoons, man. Little platoons. Or is it poltroons? I get confused.
Just know throughout history.
there have always been David Brooks there in time to some capacity of enabling and Pom-Pom waiving for at the same time.
You can peek back through the history pages written and documented finding that era's DFB.
He was there when Gingis Khan rose to power. There when Hitler claimed the trains were running on time . When they weren't.
Brooks was there for GW Bush GOP to torture people. To tell us how both sides do it. Al Qaida tortures and now so do America. That is why America is such a better country with better ideals and morals.
There was some form of DFB when Jesus Christ had his moment of doubt and pain. Wrote a column praising Pilate for washing his hands and sealing his fate.
On a lighter note, the title of Driftglass' post immediately confused me as to it being DFB on drugs versus a DFB column misstating Molly Ivins. Alas, this is the world that we live in.
But the trains always run on time for the DFBs of history. Especially since they don't use them.
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