RE NAGEL ON BROOKS THE SOCIAL ANIMAL AND THE APPEAL TO UNCONSCIOUS FORCES

Coincidentally, because of forces I described in previous posts re compartmentalization and anti intellectualism, 


one can end up with a rather 'intellectual' pundit going 'against the grain', A REBOURS, so to speak, as Nagel's article shows re Brooks' new book The Social Animal (which I haven't read):


'Brooks is out to expose the superficiality of an overly 


rational view of human nature, but there is more 


than one kind of superficiality.'




This article is connected, as I see it, with my topic, just yesterday, 


and today, Nagel gives us a very contemporary example of what I was referring to. 


A subrational account of human nature and behavior is in part derived from, and can easily dovetail into, an anti intellectual social and more importantly political stance, 


albeit surrounded by various specialized and compartmentalized social, as well as so-called exact,  scientific fields and 'findings'.


Here we have Brooks, with, so to speak (no doubt an exaggeration and falsification to some extent), a subrational Hobbesian body,  enchained within and by a Lockean moral and intellectual soul and political system.