• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The ideal that “we’re all in this together” was replaced with the reality that the educated class lives in a world up here, and everybody else is forced into a world down there. Members of our class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves.

    I love how Brooks can talk about class without bringing labor into it. Just a great example of liberals missing the damn point.

    Then he goes on to talk about “open immigration” like that’s even close to what we have.

    • banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah Brooks is one of those special kind of conservatives who seems to always miss the point in the most aspirational moralized way. Like he taught a class on “humility” that included readings of… himself. I also love his ever-Freudian book title “The Second Mountain” which is about how commitment to marriage is part of a fulfilling life… after he divorced his wife and married his younger assistant.