David Brooks’ latest column is … out there.
Or maybe it’s brilliant.
We’re not sure.
Brilliant. Nerve-touching. A bull's-eye. Nice going, @nytdavidbrooks. https://t.co/AGNRk7nznM
— Jay Nordlinger (@jaynordlinger) September 6, 2019
Huh.
From the New York Times:
I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.
I am one of those fanatics on the alt-right and the alt-left, the ones who make online forums so vicious, the ones who cancel and call out, the minority of online posters who fill the air with hate. I’m one of those radicals whose rage is intertwined with psychological fragility, whose anger at real wrongs is corrupted by my existential panic about myself.
To know anything about me you have to understand the chaos at the core of my innermost being. I was raised without coherent moral frameworks. I was raised amid social fragmentation and division, the permanent flux of liquid modernity.
Huh?
The diseased liver is awfully specific.
I am one of those fanatics on the alt-right and the alt-left, the ones who make online forums so vicious, the ones who cancel and call out, the minority of online posters who fill the air with hate. I’m one of those radicals whose rage is intertwined with psychological fragility, whose anger at real wrongs is corrupted by my existential panic about myself.
Uh-oh, he mentioned the alt-left.
Now he’s gone and done it.
I regret to inform you that David Brooks is at it again.
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) September 6, 2019
He is indeed ‘at it’ again, this time with a column about being a member of the ‘alt-right’ and the ‘alt-left’ aka internet extremists.
We see you making that face …
ok i read david brooks’ column and i guess my main question is why did i do that
— your pal andy (@andylevy) September 6, 2019
It definitely leaves you feeling sort of strange.
I forced a bot to read 1000 David Brooks columns and it spit this out before setting itself on fire.https://t.co/P53yVnqf92 pic.twitter.com/qKUxVu9Dgc
— Dave Levitan (@davelevitan) September 6, 2019
Set itself on fire.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
You guys, is David Brooks ok? I’m starting to worry… pic.twitter.com/yB37cHD1cN
— Mehrsa Baradaran (@MehrsaBaradaran) September 6, 2019
Gourmet coffee and yoga pants?
that david brooks column might be what finally kills me and honestly… thank you, david
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) September 6, 2019
Ok wow the new David Brooks column really is out there pic.twitter.com/f6aqG8tdlH
— Shuja Haider (@shujaxhaider) September 6, 2019
HA!
We see what they did here.
David Brooks is the Maureen Dowd of Bret Stephenses.
— (((evan shapīro))) (@eshap) September 6, 2019
Just don’t say anything about bedbugs.
I read a David Brooks and Bret Stephens column in one day pic.twitter.com/Qeokz4hY0b
— Grace (@GracePackard1) September 6, 2019
Ouch … oh, our sides.
Looks like David Brooks had one of Maureen Dowd's pot brownies
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) September 6, 2019
Pretty sure David Brooks just finally watched Fight Club.
— Rachel Walden (@rachel_w) September 6, 2019
Whoa, so did Brad Pitt actually write this? Fight Club really is his hottest movie but we digress.
Asking for a friend.
This editor can’t decide if Brooks’ column is brilliant or batsh*t … which might in itself mean his column is actually a success. Or it might mean she’s had too much coffee.
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