The Sandra Bullock Trade

Two things happened to Sandra Bullock this month. First, she won an Academy Award for best actress. Then came the news reports claiming that her husband is an adulterous jerk. So the philosophic question of the day is: Would you take that as a dea...

The Sandra Bullock Trade

David Brooks sounds like he's advocating for more of a social network. What's wrong? Has he become a liberal? Let's hope so. He says, "Governments keep initiating policies they think will produce prosperity, only to get sacked, time and again, from their spiritual blind side." Some of those policies that have been initiated to produce prosperity would include: massive deregulation, globalization, massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich, lack of proper tax policies in the name of conservative ideals that has led to the decay of states, cities, and our federal debt. Yes, Brooks is right...

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Mr. Brooks is a sophist. A fine example of why that school is of ill repute.

He probably began his reasoning with:

Happiness equals church, cooking and children, in German.

He would then have consulted his bookshelf for support and found it just where he put it.

He then consulted and glossed theological authority.

to cap his reasoning he searched for a popular example and found a counter example. Dismissing this was the work of a moment supported by trained opinion.

This completed his argument.

For his presentation he started with his example and stepped backward through this "argument". He conveniently abandoned his start point.

Calling Mr Brooks a stinking Nazi and a liar would not be effective.