He wants colleges to do much more. More of everything which a whole traditional society, in the 18th Century, used to do....
Why not also ask high schools, junior high schools, elementary schools, to do much more too, to fill in all the earlier gaps left by the collapse of The Old European Order, a collapse not merely of an aristocratic and monarchic political order, but also of the very fabric of Western European society and social order?
He asks, what is reality, purpose, adultness, sadness, desire, dream world?
Brooks now admits that there were once social structures within which such questions had been resolved, that are now gone. Why? Is he sad about that or not? Take a guess.
Why not also ask high schools, junior high schools, elementary schools, to do much more too, to fill in all the earlier gaps left by the collapse of The Old European Order, a collapse not merely of an aristocratic and monarchic political order, but also of the very fabric of Western European society and social order?
The American colonists, and Napoleon, had put nothing in their place worthy of the name.
Brooks now admits that there were once social structures within which such questions had been resolved, that are now gone. Why? Is he sad about that or not? Take a guess.
He just doesn't now want any of its tragic consequences, he and Thomas Friedman, Paul Krugman, and Reich, etc.
They now ironically echo Marie Antoinette, back then on the wrong side of the Democratic Revolution: 'Let them eat cake!'
Thanks to the Democratic revolution, young people are confronted by what he calls existential questions right away, and they are confronted alone.
His solution is that they need visions of holy grails on the distant shore. Whose shore is it, do you think, and why?
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