Tuesday, November 21, 2017
BOBOS IN PARADISE
Tried to read just a few pages.
Couldn't do it!
Terrible.
Gives multidisciplinary studies a bad name.
Gives multidisciplinary studies a bad name.
I think he has early onset.
This is what passes for intellectualism in America.
Bourgeoise bohemians, fails to capture anything like the kind of cultural fragmentation among better off people here.
He calls it a new upper class. Bobos are not an upper class.
We have no upper class here. We have no meritocracy here. See my posts and references elsewhere here on that idea. See also ignoramitocracy.
You might also glance at the founding documents, some time.
(His ideas on intelligence smell of The Bell Curve, which may not be as bad as it was made out to be, but Brooks could not make real use of any of it.)
An anywhere New York fallen away Jew, who spends his holidays on a somewhere dude ranch near Bozeman.
Trust me.
Terms search: Brooks, bonobos, primates, chimps
Bourgeoise bohemians, fails to capture anything like the kind of cultural fragmentation among better off people here.
He calls it a new upper class. Bobos are not an upper class.
We have no upper class here. We have no meritocracy here. See my posts and references elsewhere here on that idea. See also ignoramitocracy.
You might also glance at the founding documents, some time.
(His ideas on intelligence smell of The Bell Curve, which may not be as bad as it was made out to be, but Brooks could not make real use of any of it.)
An anywhere New York fallen away Jew, who spends his holidays on a somewhere dude ranch near Bozeman.
Trust me.
Terms search: Brooks, bonobos, primates, chimps
Saturday, November 18, 2017
RE BROOKS' BOOKS CHIMPS HUMAN RIGHTS THE SOCIAL ANIMAL
I checked these out.
The Social Animal, I read a few pages.....
Incoherent jibberish, dolled up as an intellectual tour de force.
If you asked him, point blank: "Should Chimps Have Human Rights?", he would probably say "Maybe."
If you asked him, point blank: "Should Chimps Have Human Rights?", he would probably say "Maybe."
Now I will look at Bobos In Paradise.
He obviously has a primate theme, so why not refer also, for his benefit, to Primates of Park Avenue, for comparison purposes, and to keep it on his home turf.
He obviously has a primate theme, so why not refer also, for his benefit, to Primates of Park Avenue, for comparison purposes, and to keep it on his home turf.
I am hoping for something worth attacking in detail in Bobos.
The problem with Brooks, intellectually, and you can quote me, is that he is a moving target.
Thomas Friedman, like shooting ducks in a barrel.
Brooks, quite something else.
The snipe of op ed columnists. The problem with Brooks, intellectually, and you can quote me, is that he is a moving target.
Thomas Friedman, like shooting ducks in a barrel.
Brooks, quite something else.
If you ever hunted snipe, you would know what I mean.
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