The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: 'Moral Suicide,' � la Wolfe
1. david brooks should hang out with real college students.
2. david brooks is too young to act this old.
3. david brooks misses the point of almost everything happening after 1985.
the problem with 'students today' isn't moral relativism, or their lack of moral center. it's the fact they're dumb, literally and figuratively. they are disengaged from the world around them intellectually, culturally and spiritually (in the very broadest sense) and so live in a silent white bubble of privilege and conformity. it's clear our culture doesn't value critical thinking, analysis or even deep thought, so why should he be surprised at the vacuity of a bunch of undergrads?
where has david brooks been living??
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oh, i get that. i've read the same reviews of the novel. so i'm not saying that the craptacular nature of wolfe's novel isn't to blame.
i'm saying that brooks' too-easy reading of the novel is flat. he swallows wolfe's thesis whole without problematizing it at all. and it's just another example of brooks' lame-ass attempts to boil down complex issues to things like 'morals' or 'values' or 'incivility' or 'condescension.'
brooks is smarter than this and yet he continually proves otherwise.
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