Mastodawn

If your brain is always multitasking, or responding to technoprompts, there is no time or energy for undirected mental play. Furthermore, if you are consumed by the same information loop circulating around everyone else, you don't have anything to stimulate you into thinking differently. ... You don't have access to unexpected knowledge. You're just swept along in the same narrow current as everyone else, which is swift but not deep.
-- David Brooks (Newsweek)

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wdhughes.bsky.social 6d ago

#DavidBrooks lecturing @[email protected] about the moral dangers of electing #GrahamPlatner is fucking rich. Brooks was a major cheerleader for the #Iraq war & the #NeoCon cause vegetal. He said he's OK with ignoring climate change if he could get #RomneyCare.

Brooks and Capehart on some Re...

Brooks and Capehart on some Republican lawmakers’ defiance of Trump

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Raccoon🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈6d ago

""As [#Trump's] Approval Rating goes down, willingness to stand up to him goes up."
- #DavidBrooks, #Republican commentator, on the recent shift in the #US #Congress and #Senate.

Keep picking at him, keep raising skepticism, keep pulling the people off the fence. We are winning, even if slowly.

#USpol #democracy #resist

Gary Apr 25

I always learn from David Brooks and Scott Galloway. At least double the insights when the two mix their ideas, such as this conversation on Prof G Conversations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTgbsTm3KX0&t=49s

#davidbrooks #scottgalloway

David Brooks: America Has a Moral Problem, Not a Political One | Prof G Conversations

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David Scott Moyer Apr 25

https://youtu.be/v02TAGv--6k?si=zPpRH8ZMHst7ds98

#DavidBrooks makes noise about how many people are moving to #redstates from #bluestates. He is foolish to assume that those people will vote #Republican, especially after experiencing the lack of #services, the horrendous #education, and the erosion of #civilrights happening in red states. #Arizona was reliably red, and then millions of people moved there. It has since passed through purple to blue.

Brooks and Capehart on the partisan redistricting battle

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wdhughes.bsky.social Mar 7

#DavidBrooks told @[email protected] the reason we're at #war with #Iran is 47 yrs ago Iran declared war on the #UnitedStates. Other #Trump #MAGA #Republicans have said this, too. Is the idea here that #America will be "at war" with any nation that declares on us? What a novel #doctrine!

Brooks and Capehart on Trump's...