tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post5126951063276286371..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks: O My Ducats! O My Dogma!driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-42037658278142788762016-10-04T21:09:55.986-05:002016-10-04T21:09:55.986-05:00I've long thought that the fundamental tension...I've long thought that the fundamental tension in America is between two different worldviews: the commons and the plantation. The idea of the commons was born in New England and expressed in the quote from Bill Moyers; the idea of the plantation was born in the antebellum South and espoused by just about any conservative from Bill Buckley on. You can see course of American history as a swing from one of these to the other. The commons was ascendant from Roosevelt until Reagan. Let's hope the pendulum is about to go the other way.Zak44https://www.blogger.com/profile/01496157727998817292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1030315202538905462016-10-04T16:34:36.805-05:002016-10-04T16:34:36.805-05:00I'm starting to believe that Brooks is intenti...I'm starting to believe that Brooks is intentionally writing his columns to troll Driftglass. Kath320https://www.blogger.com/profile/11065877998694745091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-83325611152982408152016-10-04T15:39:25.695-05:002016-10-04T15:39:25.695-05:00Good evening, Mr. Glass.
It's the Star Trek f...Good evening, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />It's the Star Trek future versus the Babylon 5 future. Gene Roddenberry created Mr. Brooks' lovely society, but could only achieve it through a nuclear apocalypse that permanently wiped out all the a**holes.<br /><br />Babylon 5 didn't have that apocalypse, and the result was that the future was just an extension of the present. All the worst elements of humanity were still around. They just had future-guns now.<br /><br />Unless Mr. Brooks figures out some way to change human nature, he's stuck with the B5 future.<br /><br />Be seeing you.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-2432649430020159782016-10-04T15:02:38.817-05:002016-10-04T15:02:38.817-05:00Brooks dreams of a "lovely society" afte...Brooks dreams of a "lovely society" after cheerleading for Bush, Cheney, Gingrich, etc? What a waste of column-inches this guy is!Professor Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983291640844939759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-46221254686203083552016-10-04T12:06:44.941-05:002016-10-04T12:06:44.941-05:00"Many were increasingly of the opinion that t..."Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that nobody should ever have left the oceans."<br /><br />Fun fact (stop me if you've heard this one): at the beginning of episode two of the TV series, the chap who walks into the ocean in full dorsal nudity is Douglas Adams himself, Zarquon rest his gentlemanly soul.Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.com