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it actually strikes me as giving a decent insight into neocon teachings.
by the way, what is Brooks talking about regarding his mother? I can't find anything about it, maybe Brooks has inside info.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/opinion/brooks-the-solitary-leaker.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
From what we know so far, Edward Snowden appears to be the ultimate unmediated man. Though obviously terrifically bright, he could not successfully work his way through the institution of high school. Then he failed to navigate his way through community college.
According to The Washington Post, he has not been a regular presence around his mothers house for years. When a neighbor in Hawaii tried to introduce himself, Snowden cut him off and made it clear he wanted no neighborly relationships. He went to work for Booz Allen Hamilton and the C.I.A., but he has separated himself from them, too.
Though thoughtful, morally engaged and deeply committed to his beliefs, he appears to be a product of one of the more unfortunate trends of the age: the atomization of society, the loosening of social bonds, the apparently growing share of young men in their 20s who are living technological existences in the fuzzy land between their childhood institutions and adult family commitments.
If you live a life unshaped by the mediating institutions of civil society, perhaps it makes sense to see the world a certain way: Life is not embedded in a series of gently gradated authoritative structures: family, neighborhood, religious group, state, nation and world. Instead, its just the solitary naked individual and the gigantic and menacing state.
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Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)He's an asshole.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)Funny thing about all these hit pieces I have read is the fact that the government or the contractor has not disputed that he had access to this information.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)First off, David Brooks is a Moonie.
The 32-year run of Trickle Down and Secret Government got launched by one George Herbert Walker Bush.
These aren't jokes and games. Know your BFEE: 1984 Death of Outstanding Congressional Staffer Buried Poppy-Moon Relationship
Thank you for bringing up Brooks, Enrique.
wandy
(3,539 posts)What does his resume look like.
Was he privileged to this information?
If he was NOT privileged to this information, did he have the craft to get 'under the covers' and steal it?
If neither of those conditions are true, psychoanalyzes of Snowden is silly and we should be looking elsewhere.
flamingdem
(39,333 posts)a Libertarian!
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)And I don't think Lincoln made it thru high school.
So ... whatchya' saying, Mr. Brooks?
pa28
(6,145 posts)Friedman explained that he reluctantly, only veeeeery reluctantly was willing to trade his own constitutional protections for additional security against whatever plot his imagination might generate. He was scared, and he used that word twice, of another attack and Snowden might be responsible for the next 911.
Now here is David Brooks saying the exposure of an integrated spy network used to monitor every American was a blow against an open society. He said it all without a trace of irony too.
Like Friedman he's also scared because now the secrets he never wanted to find out about will be even more closely guarded.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Salon.com has one called "David Brooks: the last Stalinist" which is not just namecalling but actually lays out the link to Stalinism.
But this one by Amy Davidson at the New Yorker is especially good: too good to excerpt from, I suggest reading the whole thing
www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/06/david-brooks-and-edward-snowden.html