#DavidBrooks points out that a lot of our angry politics is directed at a "meritocracy" that thru wealth/connections, thinks itself better than the rest of us and keeps successfully trying to get further ahead. Absolutely. But then for his media recs, he rattles off elite after elite who entertain heterodox views. Yea, no. Critical thinking isn't reserved for elites. It has to be non elites who truly challenge the power of the Ivy League, big banks and mainstream media. https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/334-the-low-trust-society
For anyone interested, here’s the link directly to the video and timestamp of Brooks explaining his tweet and saying he thought it was a mistake for him to have tweeted it.
Sounds like he meant it as a joke but people took it on face value, so Poe’s Law applies.
"My fellow Americans, I am outraged. Yesterday, I learned from a very reliable source—David Brooks, columnist at our nation’s paper of record, the New York Times—that the reason I’ve had a vague economic malaise for the past 15 or so years was not decades of economic policy that almost exclusively benefited the rich. No, it’s that airport meals have become too expensive."
~ Sylvie McNamara
David Brooks: an unfailing reminder that privilege blinds.
Via Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids
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