David Brooks the depth, breadth, humor, humility and humanity of this is profoundly reassuring and appropriately challenging..

Wow, just wow. I have listened to David on PBS in short snippets. This is another level.

On the subject of diversity, i think people need to start with admitting or accepting that it is harder and takes effort. For years now people have been gaslit into the idea it makes no different or been pressured into not talking about things like that at all.

@ER1CwC

14 минут бұрын

I think the problem is that we too often talk about diversity but not disagreement. Being able to negotiate diversity ultimately requires the ability to work through disagreements. But too often diversity is seen as a position rather than a practice. So those who are allegedly in favour of diversity condemn those who are allegedly against it as bigoted, while those who are against it react defensively and/or decry those who are in favour of it as unpatriotic, woke, etc.. No one is listening to each other.

David’s story after 51:00 is one of exercising community. In community we are at our best. I thank M. Scott Peck for teaching me this lesson.

The speaker is inspiring. To me, the root of negative feelings is the decline in moral standard across the globe.

David is one of my favorites. One of the greatest thinkers of our time. A true conservative in the best way.

@everythingandmore5537

3 күн бұрын

He didn't mention of right wing populism in israel

@catfoodgeneration

2 күн бұрын

David is one of the most mediocre thinkers of our era. I am appalled at his ubiquity.

@abditus5842

Күн бұрын

David is another east coast elitist and not a conservative.

@jiahan3849

6 сағат бұрын

I used to watch him in PBS. Not anymore.

I enjoyed watching this a lot. And I have not been a fan of David's past PBS Newshour appearances when he was a "Trump apologist" (saying "That's just Trump being Trump" back in the day). I can tell he know knows Trump is part of an existential threat to democracy (showing he is capable of learning new things)... and I really appreciate all he says here about the root causes of the crisis we are in here in America.

Beautiful and profound, thanks

I like the stat about those who get laid off. I’ve been laid off twice, and felt in both cases it was unfair. The first time, while I was popular with much of the staff, I realize it was because I didn’t exercise enough empathy for those with authority over me. The second time, while I was very popular with the staff, I realize it was because I didn’t exercise enough empathy for those with authority over me. Thank you for helping me see.

@kathyestes6577

Күн бұрын

Brooks still riles me up PBS! I think he is a moral person but with regard to our political problems he still under estimates the danger we are in. I will listen to hear him on this video now and see what I think.

The "red cross" you referred to is in fact the "Cross of St George" which is the historic flag of England before 1704 ..

@ALavin-en1kr

Күн бұрын

St. George is England’s saint. St. Andrew for Scotland. St. Patrick for Ireland. Ireland makes a big deal of their saint because they love him.

@AndrewFrantz-hn2zy

23 сағат бұрын

@@ALavin-en1kr as represented by their various crosses on the Union Flag

@ALavin-en1kr

16 сағат бұрын

@@AndrewFrantz-hn2zy There are two crosses on the Union Jack, not various crosses, one regular shaped and one X shaped for St. Andrew who was crucified on an X shaped cross. There is nothing representing Northern Ireland on the flag. The Irish Free State has green for the South and Orange for the North separated by a neutral White.

The greatest trait of human beings is to “love your neighbor as yourself”, including your enemy. It’s that simple.

@excaliburironforce9908

Күн бұрын

If it was that simple, humanity's history, especially since WW2 wouldn't be so😓

@user-cr4vb4zb6w

13 сағат бұрын

Spoken like a true magat We do love him so much we want him sent to the next life Where he can take over God seat.

This may be the densest, smartest, wisest video I have ever watched. It made me cry at this deep and circumspect wisdom that could not be more relevant. We need more of this.

If people used these statistic to reorient how are society functions and try to actually solve these things. And discuss them openly with the public so they can be informed. And contribute to solving these things.

I enjoyed this, very much.

"Damp Squib" is a wonderful description of both Brooks and the priority effects of this venue.

@jamespardue3055

6 сағат бұрын

He back fills on his basic premise of we're not religious anymore, then goes out collecting data to prove it; we've moved away from religion, and it's "The Liberals' Fault"...........at least now he frames 'religious' as just 'morals'.....but it still boils down to he believes Atheists cannot be moral people. I've read him in the NYT for decades, it's his schtick. So NOW, Liberals are responsible for the slide towards authoritarianism, it appears, and not people becoming bitter and depressed because right wing conservatism does not deliver, just like religion. He never changes or admits his side is now leading the US towards an authoritarian leader.

@awuma

3 сағат бұрын

What a dampening comment...

I'm glad I'm not young. I'm 68 and happy. Wow, people just need to get over it.-- Yes, financial background, educational background and (I would add) exposure to travel and the arts fundamentally change young people...and therefore the course of their lives. One doesn't have to have to be exposed to all 4 areas, but if one is not exposed to any of these areas at all, one is most likely doomed to a lesser life. How blessed many of us have been to have been exposed to things that matter in life.

@oasisneko1

Сағат бұрын

hate to break it to you, but you're young.

This gentleman’s work is fundamentally the most important that I think there is for this new age of technology and social decline. If we only listened to him more and problem solved accordingly we could really change the culture and politics for the better.

being into your phone on the train feels safer than talking to a real person. Risk free. By avoiding risk we are inviting isolation, loneliness, depression and enhancing fear of other. Just my experience.

@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad

10 сағат бұрын

I'm old enough (60) to remember when it was "normal" to talk to "strangers" at the cafe or the bar, or the counter at the neighborhood diner....or the manhattan neighborhood bus/subway or the coast to coast bus/train, neighborhood playground, park, the previously free NYC Rec Center Gym...the once affordable movie theater (now you're an asshole if you talk back to the dumbass...or occasionally OD smart....characters in the movie who obviously NEED OUR good and wise ADVICE, AM I RIGHT???), we couldjump up and down and shout our genius advice to the ball players (at "the Garden") without "annoying" or "triggering" our seat neighbors.......hell, I remember a time when it was "normal" to talk to the driver of the car you were lucky enough to be hitch-hiking in....that's how I met Cher, Bill Murray, Hunter S. Thompson...oh, that famous actor...always plays jerks or worse...ugh...his name will come to me before I'm ready to hit "send". Oh, yes, THAT'S IT: JACK....Jack Nicholson, AND countless non-famous mostly very very cool people who also were not afraid to pick me up and drive me to school in their cars. and talk to me...tell me stories of their lives, politely listened to my dumb/pseudo-deep....traumatized runaway adolescent poems I'd memorized....who would often ask me *actually* deep/existential questions I could not answer, , but which were valuable and thought provoking for me...I wouldn't have ever grown into myself without all those kinda baffling, over-my-empty-head, fascinating conversations with strangers in their cars on freezing cold, early Rocky Mountain icy road mornings, when you REALLY need to trust the driving skills of strangers while they talked and appeared to also listen., when they should have been just focusing on staying on the correct side of the slick and curvy road....They were all nice and kind...generous, some drove me the few extra miles out of their way to get me to my Aspen High School classes on time (which was a 35-45 minute walk from the highway)...none of them "bothered me" and I never "bothered" them, or maybe I must have been annoying at times, but you know what I mean....... they were NOT afraid of me...nor I of them...back in the 70's when we could wear "vintage" 1950's clothing, read Kerouac, listen to jazz, cut our bangs very very short and imagine looking mad cool while hacking and coughing while pretending to smoke because we stupidly thought it made us look "cool" when it only actually made us look stupid.......and hitch-hike coast to coast without (TOO much fear)...I EVEN remember when it was "normal"....even, just fine, to go to friends's homes and ring their doorbell without prior plans....back when it was even truly FINE to just out of the blue CALL a friend on the phone without texting first to ask if it's ok to call....back when few of us actually had a working doorbell, so we actually just threw pennies at their window until we actually hit the right window and got their attention so they could throw the keys out the window so we could walk up the 6 flights without them having to come down to let us in....my daughter used to CRINGE WITH EXTREME EMBARRASSMENT WHEN I WOULD RANDOMLY STRIKE UP CONVOS WITH STRANGERS...where-ever...bus stop, diner, PLAYGROUND, anywhere....her generation found it SHOCKING, TOTALLY CRAZY, INAPPROPRIATE, COMPLETE LUNACY, TRIGGERING, TRAUMATIZING, WEIRD, WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT TO, ANYWAY? HOW COULD YOU EMBARRASS ME SO? JUST TALKING TO SOMEONE, ANYONE, ABOUT NOTHING, OR ANYTHING, FOR "NO REASON"...."WHAT'S REALLY WRONG WITH YOU"??? NOW, WE HAVE LOST ANY SENSE OF THE "COMMONS"...NOW EVERY SPACE IS A COMMERCIAL, TRANSACTIONAL SPACE, AND INTERACTIONS ARE STRICTLY LIMITED TO TRANSACTIONS...YOU GET TO FEEL LIKE A HUMAN WHO ACTUALLY EXISTS AND MATTERS ONLY WHILE *PAYING FOR SOMETHING* YOU MAY OR MAY NOT EVEN WANT...BUT YOU JUST WANT TO FEEL SEEN FOR A FEW SECONDS...SORRY, NOT "YELLING" I accidentally hit capslock and I cannot retype (BAD ARTHRITIS)....I'll bet you can understand....WELL ANYWAY, I REMEMBER A TIME WHEN PEOPLE *LIKED* TO TALK TO ONE ANOTHER....SOMETIMES EVEN ABOUT MEANINGFUL IDEADS, SOMETIMES WE EVEN TOOK 'RISKS' AND MADE NEW FRIENDS OUT OF RANDOM IRL CONVOS! IMAGINE THAT!!!! OOPS...NOT-"YELLING"....AGAIN...CAPSLOCK TROUBLES AGAIN... YOUR COMMENT WAS OBVIOUSLY VERY EVOCATIVE FOR ME...I HOPE I HAVEN'T "CROSSED YOUR BOUNDARIES" OR "TRIGGERED...TRAUMATIZED...SHOCKED" YOU BY JUST STARTING TO TALK TO YOU WITHOUT ASKING FOR WRITTEN PERMISSION BEFOREHAND....I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENT. I WISH KZread COMMENT SECTIONS WERE MORE INTERACTIVE. NO ONE EVER ACKNOWLEDGES MY COMMENTS...EVEN ON THE OCCASIONS WHEN I MAKE A REAL EFFORT TO WRITE SOMETHING WORTHWHILE, WITH EVEN ACCURATE SPELLING......I ALWAYS TRY TO ACKNOWLEDGE OTHERS, BUT I DON'T THINK THEY EVER NOTICE, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK ANYONE EXPECTS OR IMAGINES THEY WILL BE SERIOUSLY/MEANINGFULLY, RESPONDED TO HERE....POSSIBLY DON'T EVEN WANT TO BE RESPONDED TO....THAT MAKES ME SAD. I'M GLAD I DON'T HAVE TO LIVE THAT MUCH LONGER IN SUCH AN UNTRUSTING, LONELY WORLD. I'M NOT IMAGINING TRYING TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH YOU BECAUSE HONESTLY, I'M TOO DISHEARTENED TO BE A GOOD FRIEND ANYMORE...I WOULDN'T RECOMMEND ANYONE TRYING TO BEFRIEND ME, AT THIS POINT, THIS WAS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE, BUT IT IS NOW....THE WORLD AS IT IS HAS MADE ME WEIRD....MAYBE, OR MAYBE I JUST *SEEM* WEIRD COMPARED TO HOW PEOPLE ARE NOW. I JUST RESPONDED TO YOUR COMMENT TO SHOW YOU MY RESPECT AND APPRECIATION FOR YOUR COMMENT. I'm STILL *not* "yelling"...AT ALL...the capslock key is my nemesis....I wish you well.

@iainmackenzieUK

10 сағат бұрын

@@AffirmativeArtsOnTheRoad Not sure where to start. I am just getting up - on holiday from school now - II am 64 and teaching Physics in China. You have a great writing style so I feel a little jealous and intimidating myself with your words. But here goes anyway - I am British but also was hitch hiking in USA in the 80's. Summer camp in New Hampshire in 1985 and then hitched to Pensilvania where I spent 10 days working on an Amish farm - just walked up to Chris and asked for some work. 10 Dollars a day for 10 days. As he wrote the check, it felt like a thousand dollars. . These days you would have to pay for a cultural experience like that. Anyhow - no point complaining about today. You can see, for example, from this conversation that there are still enough of us around. And I dont think things were so different in some ways back then. Everyone warned me that hitching in the USA you would get shot. All i got was generosity and a warm welcome. One guy drove me to my destination in his sports car just for something to do - and because he loved driving in his car. As for conversations - I was always amazed at how easy it was for driver and hitch hiker (in UK, Europe and USA) to open up - knowing we would never meet again offers a different kind of confidentiality i guess. Judging by the temperament of the vast majority of my students, human being still need and value each other. Like gold diggers, or astronomers we seek a way to one another's souls. And, thus, to our own. Or else whats the point in it all? Thanks for your reply. Enjoy whats left of your life. Dont let the cynical winds of the world erode your delicate beauty. Keep exercising those hands - keep the blood flowing. Keep writing to strangers. The end will come soon enough and that's the glorious, final part of this mystery and miracle. Good to share - take good care :)

Great talk! Deep, meaningful, insightful and he had the receipts (data). The one thing that came to mind most likely to be correlated to the global negativism and depression, especially in girls/women, is the iPhone and social media exploding around 2012. It seems like 2008 started more negative headlines, and maybe that flavor got swept up, and echoed to the 10th power with the IPhone around 2012 and beyond??

Why is it happening? Easy. Wealth = power. And power ensures further wealth. Noble, all-inclusive, "democratic" ideals continually fall by the wayside due to the specious rationalizations of oligarchs. Greed, is the underlying "Achilles heel" of the human species. As it has often been pointed out throughout global literature,"greed is blind". We, the human species, are dying from our own myopia.

@janecalby1387

3 күн бұрын

Something like that-but not all humans are greedy or mean.

@AlanCoffey

2 күн бұрын

Competitive free markets are the BEST antidote to our natural greed.

@kreek22

2 күн бұрын

Your diagnosis is too easy, too reductive to be true. Ideology cannot be discounted. It's the substitute for religion in the modern world.

@patrickvernon4766

2 күн бұрын

We have monopoly capitalism we don not have free markets

@beige_aces9465

2 күн бұрын

​@@AlanCoffeymarkets are now manipulated, banks are bailed out.

Lovely ! Thank you so much

Great talk, a valuable perspective, thank you. Adolescence is often a tumultuous transitional phase of development, not that it is unbound, but rather boundaries are redefined. I suggest that starting with Copernicus, humanity is in its adolescence. Things may be awkward around the world, but I am optimistic we will blossom into a species we can be proud of. Onwards & forwards.

Thank you for sharing this very interesting and good discussion. I gently diverged on a couple of points. I do not use politics as a form of social therapy. Frankly, I'd much rather be out in the back 40 somewhere growing a beautiful garden and keeping a couple of chickens. Let everybody else do their own math. I've already done mine. But problem solving in my life has led me to politics. I've grown to realize that the source of my problems, somehow, involves politics and if I have a chance in he*l of solving them this is where I have to be. I am not inherently talented at it. I'm not "lonely" (per se). I am a little frustrated, but in today's world I don't think I'm the only one. Sorry, I'm not trying to fill a "hole in my soul". I really don't care. I'm just trying to solve some problems, and in the course of that endeavor, if I can help people along the way that would be my preference. I must admit this is evolving, as the longer I find myself in these circles, the more situations and circumstances I find that need some helping guidance, or that I might contribute to constructively, even if only in terms of supportive ideas. Other than that, it's nice to exchange with knowledgable, intelligent people once in awhile, who perhaps are trying to resolve their own challenges as well - Agree about the importance of a secure base and family. Isn't it true though that these terms can be relative? Not everyone has the quintessential family. Many must create their own. Others must endure and survive dysfunctional families. Friends are the family you choose for yourself. Agree with you about education. I learned that lesson the hard way, but I learned it. You are so right about trust. Really important. It's an earned thing that can't be faked. Goes hand in hand with integrity. Enjoyed listening. Thanks again.

By David's definition, I'm an educated elite. I spent 10 years in college to get a Ph.D. in physics but I've never owned a home and have suffered lots of unemployment. I patched things together and made it to retirement but I don't feel like I did better than my parents.

@jdcharlwood

3 күн бұрын

Me too! 3 years unemployed and 2 years working without pay (used the time to read a large number of books from the ancients to the moderns). No house car etc and at 75 still looking for work. Considered a 'legend' in my field (malaria research) - traveled the world and so know that most people on this wonderful planet have it much worse than I do.

@jcg5541

2 күн бұрын

You’re not the type of educated elite David Brook is speaking of, unless you think you are a superior human because of your education, hence the term “elite”. It sounds like you are serving humanity, not lording over those less educated than you.

@kreek22

2 күн бұрын

Overproduction of elites is a problem. Mostly, this is because some of these people end up with miscalibrated expectations about their professional prospects. Even people with garbage Ph.D.'s in fields like sociology think they're too good to do things like teach high school. I know two physics Ph.D.s who were more practical and did well in software for most of their careers.

@jonwesick2844

2 күн бұрын

@@kreek22 Fair enough but if they can't get a job because of overproduction, they're not elites.

@kreek22

2 күн бұрын

@@jonwesick2844 Maybe, although it's a situation that reminds me of the many cases of aristocrats in "reduced circumstances" that one finds in European history. They were still deemed, tenuously, elite due to their titles. Degrees today are somewhat akin to titles of nobility. Certainly, people with advanced degrees, but limited wealth often think of themselves as elite socially, politically, intellectually.

There's a church in your neighborhood that would love to have you visit. People need to be brave about finding spiritual meaning.

I always appreciate your humility and compassion along with your BRILLIANT intellect.

Some contradiction... first part of speech said happiness, viability, longevity was predicted by educational achievement and 2nd half claimed it was not a predictor of success.

Follow the money. The bottom 90-99% have lost purchasing power and wealth for forty years. I believe that drives all the other symptoms.

@EmbodyYourDivinity

2 күн бұрын

The

@kreek22

2 күн бұрын

The bottom 90% also never get what they want politically. Who among them want open borders? Who wants fake free trade with China? Who wants anti-white racism everyplace? Who wanted to stay in Afghanistan for 20 years?

@golfinguru11

Күн бұрын

Piketty compiled a bunch of empires - each experienced similar stratification…each folded within a few generations. I hope he’s wrong but I’m not counting on it.

One of the main problems is that people have made government their God. We want government to solve all of our problems, give us everything, absolve us for taking any responsibility for our own decisions and our own lives, and that does not work. Government has tried to do that and now the whole world is in such a huge debt trap that it is going to change all of our lives at some point, and not for the better. People forget that whoever pays the bills gets to make the rules and make the decisions, so there goes your freedom in the end. That is why history is so important because it's happened over and over and over, but everybody thinks oh wow this never happened before. Not sure what we can do now to fix it, but I would guess the first thing we should do is stop digging the hole deeper. Probably not going to happen.

@rickbroderick9146

2 күн бұрын

Who is digging the hole deeper? Seriously.. where are the trillions going? And who are the ones spending the actual proportionate bulk of the bill. I spent 35 yrs as an RN, Devoted to my work in critical care and emergency care.My kid had severe mental health issues uncovered by that "overtaxed government' you mention, and the bulk of my income went into 30 years of out of pocket uncovered health care. While paying my taxes. Finally pretty much done, but retired with zero pension afforded to a frivolous career saving human life. Empathy is the key mate.

Secure the family, secure the flag, secure the faith? I hope there are additional pathways to securing individuals’ foundations

17min in, is he saying there is no real problem except our psychological problem? ..........ok, I finished the whole lecture, and did some research on the guy, he supported Iraq war, he is the reason for all the problems in the world, and he has the audacity to come out and preach.

David your ability to bring us awareness of our feelings our relationships morals WAIT in 2008 our climate hit a tipping point We are sensitive to our physical climate the increase in temperature unpredicable order lack of coherence turbulance If our climate is truely changing If we are helpless if we are really victims How should we feel? Is it silly to desire our earth would stop burning?❤

@kreek22

2 күн бұрын

incoherent rambling

Such a wonderful man.

What he says makes sense to me. He sees it as it is, I cannot disagree with it.

Amazing and compassionate analysis of the state of the humanity today, HOWEVER (you knew that was coming right?), after listening to this, and the British, and French and Geman liberals on this topic, I noticed one common thread. They analyze almost every region in the world, but tiptoe around India, the world's largest democracy, who after consistently voting for left liberals for 55 years, has voted a right wing populist in the power for the third time, making him the longest serving Prime Minister only the second time in the history of India. Why is this excluded from the analysis?

Excellent!

Suggest the base malaise is that more than ever before are being pressured to individuate- the herd morality formulas no longer suffice. Many are not remotely used to taking responsibility for their own foundational security. Or building it through rigorous character forming experience, or developing spiritual guidance from within. Hence the attraction to the strong man leader- he will solve it for you. Except this time around it won’t work. We must undergo a paradigm shift soon, all by ourselves-accompanied by those who can leap the ditch with us, perhaps.

Why do political liberals (which is not the same term “liberal” used in “liberal democracy) always use populism as a negative term only associated with authoritarianism, “far right”, etc. Beginning such a discussion in such a polemic tone is immediately divisive and elitist, not objective or humble.

@abditus5842

Күн бұрын

This is the Aspen elitist confab. A couple of years ago the star of the show was Ibram X Kendi. The now defamed race hustler.

Love David Brooks. He keeps optimistic despite the darkness.

These troubles would be much improved if he bottom 80% had twice their present income.

Brooks is the best

Liberalism is not bad per se, but liberalism married to capitalism is. The most dangerous liberalism was when we as western countries, as western societies said that growing the margin of profitability for the few business owners was more important than the sustainability of our communities and we took our blue collar work to countries with cheap labour. We put those workers out of money and families out of balance. Having a family and taking care of children is now something that is hard to afford for most. Most young people cant afford their own housing. Young people starting a family are supposed to work as if they dont have any kids and raise kids as if they don't have a job. Childcare is costly and right out puts young families at the threshold of barely making the ends meet. Is this really an issue of liberalism, or maybe it does have a lot more to do with the fact that money remains the only true value in the western societies? How do we treat the poor and the disadvantaged, are they equal members of the society? Do marginalised families have a fair access to healthcare and education for their kids? What about the minimum wage, is it livable, can one who does unqualified labor have a decent living situation? So is this really liberalism, you think?

World on Fire: we wait for the fire of the Holy Spirit for revival; not the fire from hell .. "6 The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell" (James 3:6)

Wow! This man needs to be chief advisor to POTUS and Vice Potus! Can you imagine??

Many people today are up the creek without a paddle.

Well done

The end of resiliency in Earth’s carrying capacity is here. All the world’s pessimism flows directly or indirectly from the manifold pressures caused by that. If you don’t believe it, you have not looked closely enough to see the finer threads.

@jdcharlwood

3 күн бұрын

I agree. We experience this now (not just know it from books). And yet nothing is actually being done about it - this must be a root cause of young people's depression.

@TerlinguaTalkeetna

2 күн бұрын

I often tell people that there was less than 3 billion people on the planet in '58 when I was born and now there is over 8,000,000,000 humans. This has never happened in human history to breed beyond our carrying capacity. Business is great, just look at the stock market, but growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cells and is not sustainable. I completely agree with your statement.

The problem is many thinkers do not understand the Bible.

In this country if you put that Red Cross in your window with that meaning put forth in the Guardian, some MAGA type would throw a brick through your window.

"All of life is a series of daring explorations from a secure base".

@anwiycti1585

4 күн бұрын

Polyvagal theory

Ha! Nailed it! It WAS Katie Couric!

W O W!!!

I got a kick out of the woman who thinks that progressives see the “ Truth” and conservatives don’t.

@briananderson8428

2 күн бұрын

You're as brainwashed as David Brooks. What "truths" do conservatives "see?" Lower taxes for millionaires? A gun in every hand of Americans? Private equity taking over 20% of all hospitals in the United States? Pro-Putin Republicanism from 2022-2024? What "truths" are we liberals missing in specific policy terms?

So inspiring! 41:32

Mr. Brooks is a lot smarter than I am. But why does he think he's right about anything? At least he should start with: "Here's my two cents worth." Then others would be more willing to add to what Mr. Brooks says or feel comfortable commenting on what he says. Maybe he's right and maybe he's wrong. That's my 2 cents worth.

5:02 / 18:17 - roots and wings

Internet and social media: seeing limitless options, also different values to choose from, confusion... And russian covert malign meddling in social media, amplifying social divides.

@kreek22

2 күн бұрын

The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!

Family and moral order are not fundamental;, they are a consequence of each person's underlying security in the social order. Each person has to feel secure in their life BEFORE creating a stable family or defing a moral order, because personal security is THE fundamental drive. The problem in the last few decades is that there is a mismatch between our expectations (to provide personal security) and the ability of modern society to create that environment. In the decades past, our expectations were lower because life was indeed simpler. Health care could not do what it can now, but was cheaper and more affordable. But now we have cures for cancer and many other chronic diseases and disease prevention, but at a cost that makes health care less affordable. In the past, families expected to stay in their smaller houses. (Younger people are now staying longer at home but this is not an expectation but a reluctant necessity). But now houses are larger and people move from one house to another more often. Retirement was to rest so rather than travel the world, so financing could be simpler in the past. But people want to enjoy their retirement now. And companies expected to keep emplyees for life, but now they are fired and hired to keep labor costs low. And in the past high school was enough to be well employed, and then a college degree, and now a more specialized degree. Technological innovation of cable TV, internet, cell phones, computerized homes and cars create more expectations but with a diversion of personal income to pay for them, costs that were not present 40-50 years ago. So, people have higher expectations that society is failing to match. But why is society failing to the indifidual. Because, profit /wealth has become the penultimate goal of corporate and elite society. Corporate powers have coopted government to lower taxes and reduce social program funding or minimize social programs, reduce governments ability to regulate, and minimize those factors that make life less secure and maximize those factors that make life more secure. CEO's once made 40x their employee salaries, now they make 300-400 x. Income for these financial elites is not about paying for life needs and wants but represent a badge of accomplishment. These incomes have to come from somewhere, and that is the pockets and policies the previously supported the life of the common individual. In summary the rise of populism is the result of 1) greater complexty 2) greater expectations related to that complexity 3) the conflict between the benefits of greater complexity of modern life vs the costs reated to them 3) the diversion of resources (financial and political) by and toward wealthy individual and corporations that otherwise would have mitigated to costs of modern lifes complexity.

How much of the negativity of society relates to the large cohort of aging boomers?

I don't buy that. 2008? What has that to do with family?

why is it happening? it's a backlash. very, very predictable.

Bottom line: our collrctive life is a balance between chaos and order. Right n9wee need more order. Responsibikities more than rights. Give more than take.

Great diagnosis - the best. Suggestions for healing - for a cure, not so great.

@anwiycti1585

4 күн бұрын

It’s ptsd

@nathanielparker4421

2 күн бұрын

Phones

Knew he was a 🤡 when he included Jan 6 with 9/11 and Oct 7.

I love this man's decency. I completely disagree with his intellectual construct of the world, but I would happily be a supportive friend and neighbor to him and welcome him into my life, because no matter what happened I would know root to bone that he would do what was in his power to find a humane solution to any problem. Republican or Democrat that should be the bar to have the attention of the world focused on you - the respect of curiosity.

The man who divorced his wife and picked up with a 20 something talking about morality again.

Brilliant, Brooks! Would have appreciated thoughts on the critical importance of a stable ECONOMIC base. Top 3, no doubt!! How do we get there (e.g., UBI)??

@kreek22

2 күн бұрын

Stability in economics is too similar to stagnation--not worth the risk.

need to hear from Robert Sapolsky here 😂😂😂

Not all countries have such a dark outlook. Notably the full democracies (sadly there are only about twenty) mostly enjoy good levels of confidence in government, prosperity and human happiness. There is a lesson there.

@chickenfishhybrid44

3 күн бұрын

What exactly is a "full democracy"? These types of attitudes are increasingly common in a lot of the rich, Western countries. The stats he was making comparisons to Americans with presumably include the countries you're referencing as well.

@jimgraham6722

3 күн бұрын

@@chickenfishhybrid44 Full democracies are those who regularly hold free and fair elections where all sides freely agree the outcome is correct. ie. despite a vigorous contest, once the votes are cast and counted, there are no claims of fake voting, electoral fraud, or political interference in the count etc. Sadly there are only twenty or so full democracies. For the most part, the social cohesion, prosperity, happiness and well being they experience is a direct result The democracy index explains this in greater detail. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

David is one of the best speakers of our time. A lot of problems in the world would be solved if he was running for president in this election.

Go David!!! DBE - David Brooks Exception

12:00 "It couldn't be all the rich people just throwing their cards on the table and trying to re-establish feudalism, trust me, I need a safe retirement home, Its a spiritual crisis..." You srsly going with that?

@boblee5556

2 күн бұрын

12:15 all the dudes, including my father and most men his age who didn't die of cancer from a work hazard, or drinking themselves to death or aren't in prison for eighty decades over a bag of drugs, shot themselves because our society is meaningless and is becoming a shithole, like all the rich people have made our world into a pig pen and were in it man. Political commentators on any 'official' media are like a bunch of blind guys trying to convince each other that the elephant in the room is something else. Its sad to see a grown man contort himself into lies and bullshit like this.

Good writer and thinker. He keeps working on his life and reporting his findings. Thank you David.

Low social trust -- sounds great, but where does that exist? In nonWestern countries, people marry their cousins, and they are basically trapped in their family.

College needs to be free for all. Businesses need to offer entry level positions that don't require college

It’s insane these are reporters and it’s one thing to have beliefs that you talk about but everything they talk about is political like they’re in a party working for a party there’s no objectivity it’s the bad here in the Good Hair and it’s always the same direction

Why is "democracy" a word with positive connotations, while the word "populism" has negative connotations... they are the same fucking thing.

@lancewalker2595

4 күн бұрын

@@Relic5150 Populaism: a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups. Democracy: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

@ardeshirjahanian2697

4 күн бұрын

@@Relic5150no ur describing republicanism. Pure Democracy is the majority votes and gets their way.

@lancewalker2595

4 күн бұрын

@@Relic5150 You are mistaking democracy for a constitutional republic, which, judging by your strange conflation of "minorities" with elites definitely tracks. Words matter, I'm not going to trade the superior understanding of political concepts as articulated by the likes of Montesquieu, Locke, and Jefferson for contemporary double-speak created by elitist assholes who think they know better... both because they're wrong, and also because they definitely DO NOT know better.

@lancewalker2595

4 күн бұрын

@@Relic5150 I don't know if you've noticed, but universities aren't exactly gold-standard on matters of academic quality and intellectual integrity. I'll stick to my old books thanks.

@iainmackenzieUK

4 күн бұрын

@@lancewalker2595 in which case, we might conclude that we deserve the likes of Trump.

Pure garbage. Stay in your elite lane, Brooks.

Introduction is way too long winded.

The smug complacency of David Brooks reveals the privileged world that he inhabits. It is not very insightful, or representative. He is so ensconced in his own privilege that he is incapable of providing a genuine, visceral assessment of the present moment.

@fflv_irn

3 күн бұрын

Well, everyone has a right to have the opinion and speak it. Even if your opinion reeks of virginity😅

Great program but it fails to address the present threats. The permafrost has begun melting and cannot be stopped. We have no idea what is going to happen . Try faith . Vaya con Dios

Full of bullshit, talked about everything except for the real reason: rich is taking everything.

If he did not making a living by lying on PBS I would have listened to more of it. I just can't stomach his preaching after seeing him for so many years.

David is an intelligent speaker. But he should try to stay unbiased and objective politically. While he identifies overdose of individualism and liberalism as a problem, he refuses to see authoritarianism as part of the solution even after mentioning an example of its efficacy. All religion and family are authoritarian. Authority is what makes society function, too much is tyranny but there will be no society without it.

the Bible? any intellectual should be laughed out.

@kmeisenbach1

2 күн бұрын

politely shamed out of any intellectual discussions except to point out the harms in our kids be raised religious.

This was wonderful!

You missed the demographic shift - less kids and small families! 😮 Plus the infiltration of technology into every aspect of our lives! 🫤

David is one of my favorites. One of the greatest thinkers of our time. A true conservative in the best way.