tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4618650282086209398..comments2024-03-28T00:02:35.850-05:00Comments on driftglass: Stupid Shit David Brooks Saysdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-61629858774360034332012-06-02T01:36:13.612-05:002012-06-02T01:36:13.612-05:00Like Donny and Marie, [Romney is] counter-cultural...<i>Like Donny and Marie, [Romney is] counter-cultural.</i><br /><br />...<br /><br />...<br /><br />...<br /><br />...the fuck?Sophistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-19689802885795562292012-05-31T21:04:28.971-05:002012-05-31T21:04:28.971-05:00Frankly, his rational has gone so far off the rail...Frankly, his rational has gone so far off the rails, I'm not sure even he believes it any more.<br />I think.. he thinks..he is conditioning us,the great unwashed..or those in power that he believes he influences. Like some abstract Pavlovian experiment. The great tragedy being, if it actually worked..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-80706359309356580682012-05-31T19:36:33.643-05:002012-05-31T19:36:33.643-05:00I believe Leto II had the appropriate response to ...I believe Leto II had the appropriate response to historians who abused their power. They were burned on a pillar of their own books.Ebon Krieghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05047097899906247655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-23772764978511943492012-05-31T16:48:38.292-05:002012-05-31T16:48:38.292-05:00"He doesn’t seem to have experienced the cult..."He doesn’t seem to have experienced the cultural shift of the last few decades."<br /><br />That thought feels terrifyingly like Reagan redux to me. AIDS? Oh, I don't know about that, heh heh. Right mommy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20680491050685069452012-05-31T15:13:30.000-05:002012-05-31T15:13:30.000-05:00...Na, Cesare was ten times more intelligent than ......Na, Cesare was ten times more intelligent than Rmoney is, and even more ruthless.<br /><br />Rmoney is more akin to the Pazzi family, I'd say.tmknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83262712154115349252012-05-31T12:16:41.011-05:002012-05-31T12:16:41.011-05:00Karl Weintraub must be ready to drown himself in B...Karl Weintraub must be ready to drown himself in Botany Pond right about now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-24624116969029352102012-05-31T10:42:01.790-05:002012-05-31T10:42:01.790-05:00OK, I'm looking at the Renaissance. Is Romney...OK, I'm looking at the Renaissance. Is Romney Michelangelo or Lorenzo de' Medici? I know, Cesare Borgia!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-43991111581913579982012-05-31T10:24:18.074-05:002012-05-31T10:24:18.074-05:00Brooks is reminiscing about the past the same way ...Brooks is reminiscing about the past the same way Southerners reminisced about the past to justify hierarchy generally, and specifically, the owning of slaves.<br /><br />Anyone who has taken a high-level history course covering the South knows that Southerners used Greek and Roman philosophy that celebrated patrician values and societal structures to compare their own culture. They had to, since they were enthralled by FREEDOM! and LIBERTY!, while denying those very rights to the human beings they owned. It was cognitive dissonance to be sure, double-think by Orwell's standards. But excusing the inexcusable is always a reach. So, look backward, suspend reason, and make the most favorable comparison you can.<br /><br />You see the same today by Republicans and Southerners. Always looking to the past to justify the status quo, or regression to decades past.The constant look back by Republicans and Southerners is a tradition that they won't let go of until it's beaten out of them. And I don't mean through the ballot box or education system. <br /><br />Make of that what you will.Cinesiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14996950964848333121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56758693525307269962012-05-31T09:24:43.566-05:002012-05-31T09:24:43.566-05:00is he trying to claim the Renaissance was a NOSTAL...is he trying to claim the Renaissance was a NOSTALGIC movement?zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.com