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user-inactivated  ·  2257 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which David Brooks binges on ketamine and decides millennials are frogs

Serious question. Is there a criticism here, other than his somewhat awkward metaphor? I mean, fuck, I'm full of awkward metaphors. He's trying to say something positive here though and I think he has some points.

    Their lives are examples of the power of love to slice through tribal identity. If you start with the Amphibian approach - that every new and different person you meet is first of all my brother, my sister - then the concept of difference changes. The emotional atmosphere is transformed.

I mean, he's no Desomnd Tutu, but his heart seems to be in the right place on this one.