For quicker reference, one should file Brooks's latest column under Ecclesiastes 1:9. I found his meditations brilliant (which is the conservative in me), if woefully ignored by today's inept scatterings of protest, which is Brooks's woe, too.
One minor difference of opinion, though, David. Nietzsche wasn't all that fresh, either; he being but a syphilitic bastardization of Schopenhauer and Plato's Callicles.
Oh no you didn't (snaps fingers in the air)! Nietzsche not all that fresh? Come on dude, Nietzsche was as fresh as they came and he always brought it. The will to power, eternal recurrence of the same, culture as laziness, newspapers as where the buffoons go to spill their bile? I submit that you, sir, are extremely Nietzchean because you wield an almighty hammer in your mutterings against the rampant stupidity and hypocrisy that passes itself off as informed opinion. Behold, or should I say, Ecce. the aforementioned syphilitic bastard's take on those whom he called the "last men": Deaf mofos with big ears who proclaim that they have found happiness as they hop about on one leg. Oh, Nietzsche was one angry mofo and being something of a sensitive musical soul he at one time in his brief life talked about sounding things out with a tuning fork just to see how they vibrate, to see whether they were solid or just filled with stale air, but who by the end was on a rampage with a hammer, although he did it so well and so elegantly in his books. As he said, he liked to dance. And you, Mr. Carpenter are a dancer. Do not protest.
Posted by: christo | February 03, 2012 at 12:53 PM
Thanks for that, christo.
I hate to see someone as fresh and entertaining as Fred dissed, especially by the esteemed pmc.
Posted by: Jim Milstein | February 04, 2012 at 05:16 PM