tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post474126581503859227..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks Isn't Here Right Now, But If You'd Like To Make An Appointment...driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-78518028100773332462016-06-14T17:06:06.544-05:002016-06-14T17:06:06.544-05:00"Algorithmically typing". You are a geni..."Algorithmically typing". You are a genius, Mr.D.karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00222296664799236390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-45845407231263000352016-06-14T16:21:42.097-05:002016-06-14T16:21:42.097-05:00The fuckin' guy really is out to lunch these d...The fuckin' guy really is out to lunch these days. A lunatic murders 50 in Orlando with an assault rifle while maiming an equal number, and the Repub. presumptive nominee goes Full Metal Fascist. But DFB can't be bothered to alter his opinion queue and proceeds to publish some sophomoric shit about about the need for "love" in the classroom?<br /><br />Does the stupid bastard have an opinion on gun control and re-institution of the assault weapons ban? Of course not. How about violent homophobia? Naw. What about condemning Trump's latest demagoguery? Oh, that might be considered "impolite."<br /><br />He's one of the poorest excuses for an "opinion leader" I've ever seen. Only in the vast wasteland of the NYT's editorial pages could such a worthless drone drone on, and on, and on * * * Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08880308031096340258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-15428315342305385612016-06-14T13:36:41.282-05:002016-06-14T13:36:41.282-05:00Wherein DFBs unsuccessfully attempts to prove his ...Wherein DFBs unsuccessfully attempts to prove his bona fides (what prize do I win for using that Latin phrase? huh? huh?) as an intellectual philosophical brainiac. So vaunted. So smarty pants.<br /><br />Proving? Exactly nothing. <br /><br />PS I thought Big Love was about lucky Morman men having multiple wives. Of course, in the fervid imaginations of the infotainment industry, all of those wives are uniformly hawt and smokin' hawt in bed. You betcha! Is that what DFB was getting at? Because otherwise, I haz confused (not uncommon with Fuckcakes' scribblings).RUKiddinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14057702539722165035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-74459293308128587522016-06-14T13:18:28.718-05:002016-06-14T13:18:28.718-05:00So Mr. Glass, we meet again.
It's starting to...So Mr. Glass, we meet again.<br /><br />It's starting to look to me like you can classify Mr. Brooks' columns according to the states of matter.<br /><br />SOLID COLUMN: deals with practical issues, where Mr. Brooks is woefully inadequate to propose practical solutions, despite trying. Example: his problems with Future Republican Unperson Donald Trump.<br /><br />LIQUID COLUMN: deals with practical issues, but Mr. Brooks wants to solve everything with philosophy. Example: this recent column on education, where he's willing to blame Mr. Hobbes (mfing Hobbes!) for changing Western civilization's philospical tone, but not the Republican Party for helping to exacerbate our wealth inequality.<br /><br />GAS COLUMN: deals with things...and stuff. Example: his column about his expensive, paid vacation.<br /><br />Feel free to come up with wittier names, if you haven't already.<br /><br />Be seeing you.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36633598423768692202016-06-14T13:17:58.611-05:002016-06-14T13:17:58.611-05:00"Teachers are now called upon not only to tea..."Teachers are now called upon not only to teach biology but to create a culture..."<br /><br />Pseudo-intellectual crap brought to you by Brooks et al. after he spent last night's dinner party hearing some Upper East Side Oligarch bitch about how his off-spring's Biology teacher isn't giving his child the grades his child deserves while that OTHER kid is getting good ones....because the entire education system has broken since "my day" of course. <br /><br />It is funny when actual meritocracy bites the ruling class in the ass. <br /><br />trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-48943681672225440732016-06-14T12:29:12.509-05:002016-06-14T12:29:12.509-05:00John:
" There must be some source for this fo...John:<br />" There must be some source for this folkloric tradition, but I don't have time to track it down now."<br /> <br /> My guess would be Dr. King, who spoke at eloquent length about the three Greek words for love. DFB probably considers himself a contemporary, or some such horse shit.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oakland<br />dinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-22164569538473851672016-06-14T11:59:09.117-05:002016-06-14T11:59:09.117-05:00In pace requiescat.
Or, to put it another way, a ...<i>In pace requiescat.</i><br /><br />Or, to put it another way, a way I'm sure you'll appreciate:<br /><br /><i>"Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett."</i>Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-84759335792372320392016-06-14T11:46:54.084-05:002016-06-14T11:46:54.084-05:00You know, I just read today's Brooks column, w...You know, I just read today's Brooks column, which begins:<br /><br /><i>The ancient Greeks had different words for different kinds of love — like Ludus (playful love), Pragma (longstanding love) and Agape (universal love).</i><br /><br />I actually teach Latin and Greek for a living, and this statement is just full of inanity. .<br /><br />First off, "ludus" is Latin, not Greek. Perhaps it is meant to translate some Greek word based on the stem παιδ-. In any case, Brooks' statement is a variation on a commonplace in Christian self-help literature. Google "Greek words for love" and you'll see many variants on this. They're all treacly pseudo-intellectual distortions of the real facts in the Greek language. There must be some source for this folkloric tradition, but I don't have time to track it down now. <br /><br />In any case, Brooks actually did make some sense in the column. He's right about social inequality being the primary problem in our educational system. Congratulations, Mr. Brooks! After years of doing everything he can to support those who assiduously engineered the inequality we fact, you have begun to realize it's a problem. Of course, he never mentions that there needs to be some wealth transfer to address this issue--if nothing else to see that poor kids get well-paid teachers who have the resources to help kids. <br /><br />But you know, I've been an educator now for, like, 30 years. I'm tired of people like Brooks, who never would deign to set foot inside real classroom (I'll ignore his famous ivy-league grad seminar on humility), telling us what's wrong with our education system. Inevitably, their rhetoric gets used to impoverish teachers and enrich the one percent as so-called reformers attack teachers' unions and set up essentially private schools funded by public monies. <br /><br />Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05630222099564418320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-77346597409070801292016-06-14T11:22:45.406-05:002016-06-14T11:22:45.406-05:00I blame The Core Program at the U of C. I'll ...I blame The Core Program at the U of C. I'll bet the bits about the Greeks and philosophers came from his profs' lecture notes. Which makes it plagiarism. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02753739198386729717noreply@blogger.com