What? No he isn’t. He’s a hack on the globalist payroll. Some species of pseudo-intellectual at best, low frequency individual. Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them. This is one of them. Perhaps he doesn’t believe it either, but it pays the bills. Stop elevating these clowns with praise, even if only to balance out criticisms.
In the 1930s and back, old folks homes were not a thing. Grandma and grandpa lived at home with their children’s families.
“David Brooks is one of the best-known public intellectuals in America”
Stopped reading!
Unless I am mis-understanding this article, I have to agree, it is preferable to have multi-generations near each other, even if you don’t all live under the same roof, it is nice if you are all within a reasonable driving distance of each other
How many families have Brooks or Denison moved into their homes?
This is why people who came to this country from Asia have been successful. The families pooled their resources to start businesses.
Any employee of the New York Homosexual Times is a degenerate sniveling scumbag of the lowest order. The building should be nuked from orbit, just to be sure. /spit
I’ll give you props for the Hopper pics.
If it was such a mistake, why were the communists so intent on destroying it?
So the author is a dumbass.
“David Brooks is one of the best-known public intellectuals in America…”
LoL. Those guys at the bee out did themselves this time.
Wife and I moved in order to care for her elderly parents and they never saw a day inside an old folks home. Both of the got to live in their home surrounded by their possessions and memories until the days they passed.
Only a highly educated intellectual could come up with such illogical bulls**t.
So the nuclear family has changed. Got it. What about that means it was a mistake?
I cooked dinner the other night, and ate it. The leftovers I put in the fridge and forgot about now have this fuzzy green stuff growing on it and I think it should be thrown out. So does that mean cooking dinner was a mistake?
I mean, his conclusion is just asinine.
Quit reading after “David Brooks”
No one’s business how another family co-exists. Freedom to choose is what matters.
An intellectual is an idiot with a thesaurus.
imho, there’s a lot of merit to this essay.
without a family, the government steps in and...
1. can’t do the job nearly as well
2. charges us all a great deal more in taxes
3. becomes more and more a powerful entity, vis a vis the individual and his.her liberties
David Brooks is a commie scumbag, always has been, always will be.
[...hyper-individualism kicked into gear in the 1960s, people experimented with new ways of living that embraced individualistic...]
I graduated HS in the late 80s. I knew of 2 girls that were kicked out of their homes when they turned 18. They were good girls; not troublesome or rebellious at all. I just thought WTH, they’re getting thrown to the wolves.