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user-inactivated  ·  2259 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which David Brooks binges on ketamine and decides millennials are frogs

    This is effectively LolBrooks going "hey you guise like young people are interesting and shit" because he just learned that.

To be fair to Brooks, and I'm being serious here when I'm saying "to be fair to Brooks," no one is ever too old to make positive discoveries. That he is enthusiastic enough to want to write about the issue and show it to the world, shows he's either A) somewhat sincere in his thoughts or B) finding positive encouragement to try and think this way. Naive or not, cloistered or not, elitist or not, awkward metaphors or not, he's trying here, and that's something to be not only encouraged, but celebrated.





kleinbl00  ·  2259 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's not that you're wrong?

It's that a staff columnist for the New York Times must necessarily be held to a higher standard than your uncle Joe.

user-inactivated  ·  2259 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh man. I wish I kept my original bit. I started with "You know, if you told me this morning that I was gonna take some time out of my day to defend an opinionist, I couldn't really see it happening. But here I am."

tacocat  ·  2259 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    That he is enthusiastic enough to want to write about the issue

Then he should get a Tumblr

user-inactivated  ·  2259 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He'd be eaten alive.

tacocat  ·  2259 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd subscribe to David Brooks reacts to ordinary things