Robert Stacy McCain puts in some time on the speed bag with another David Brooks fisking.
In today’s episode, the prismatic Mr. Brooks refracts a few beams of light emitted by a selection of random eggheads. Money quote from McCain: “One gets the mental image of Brooks reclining on a divan, reading an article in Psychology Today and saying, ‘Oh, I'll write about that.’ And -- voila! -- second-hand expertise.”
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Re the scientists waffling on about altruism within groups being 'hard wired' -
ReplyDeleteThis would include the nazis - or anyone - as an 'altruistic' group.
I have a mad old German neighbour who raves about how Hitler saved her life. Apparently she was a sick child and the nazis introduced a 'Mutter Kind' welfare program, which funded my neighbour and her mother on a trip to a healthier clime which 'saved her life'.
Needless to say I avoid her.