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If you’re one of the three people who reads this here premier “web log,” you may have once checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You might even recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today\’s is just one of the the opening lines from David Brooks\’s profoundly shallow column today \”What Suffering Does,\” People shoot for happiness but feel formed through...

My god this David Brooks column is SO David Brooks it hurts. First (I mean second), this line: Fertility rates, a good marker of confidence, are down. Is there a machine that pumps out David Brooks weird columns about how all economic and social ills are actually because confidence or values or emotions? Now, let’s unpack this paragraph. I’m just gonna go ahead and edit it for, well, correctness: No, a big factor here is a loss in self-confidencemoney. It takes faithmoney to move. You are putting yourself through temporary expense and hardship because you have faithmoneyso...

If you’re one of the three people who remembers this here blog from its hay-day, you have once in a blue moon checked out the New York Times op-ed page. You probably recognize the names of the columnists, who every day spout the most conventionally wise of the conventional wisdom. This is a feature that is dedicated to these folks, highlighting one line that is either funny, ridiculous, strange, or actually intelligent or well-written. Today’s is from David “Good God You Have A Job Doing This?” Brooks, who in his column today “Other People’s Views,” writes: We...