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Originally Posted by akelman
You posted a link to an op-ed that does exactly that!
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HaHa! I wasn't referring to Mr. Brooks' essay, I was referring to the responses that disagreed and debunked his essay in focusing on minutiae.
I understood the essay as an OpEd and not a product towards academia. It presented a point of view with some degree of backing suitable to his argument and permissible in the context of word limits imposed to a newspaper column. It started a conversation. That is all.
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(A friend of mine once said that David Brooks is a stupid man pretending to be a smart man pretending to be a stupid man, and I think that's just about as accurate a description as you can possibly find, though it doesn't touch on the fact that he's also become a monument to empty moralizing.)
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Hey, what are ya gonna do? His job is to write but your job doesn't involve reading him.
As far as judgements on stupid or not: There's always somebody smarter and you'll only get into trouble when you think that somebody is you.