Gads I hate David Brooks. Here I am, reading moral and life advice from an asshole who traded his wife in for a 23 year younger model, gives war-mongering neocon goon-policy advice to America in various thinktanks and NYT columns, despite being a Canadian with a son in the IDF. He tells me to shape my life like a pentagram, and is bragging he goes to conferences with liberals AND conservatives, lookit how alternative he is, woo-woo.

David Brooks (like Arthur Brooks who inexplicably gets linked here sometimes too) should be a cautionary tale of how you can make shitty choices and be a lousy human being, but you'll be taken care of if you fit into a certain social milieux and regurgitate the correct oligarch pieties for the peasants. Bleauch. It isn't even a well written article; what's he saying at the end? Go to more conferences? It's OK to be old as long as you're well balanced? Don't get too good at anything?