David Brooks: Educated vs Self-Made Hacks
SPEAKING OF HACKS…
WHERE’S DAVID BROOKS’ JOKEBOOK?
You can say one thing for David Brooks, the New York Times’ domesticated “conservative”: it’s hard to beat his unintentionally-hilarious quotes.
“Government used to be staffed by party hacks. Today, it is staffed by people from public policy schools. But does government work better than it did before?”
Let’s see: party hacks today come from universities which are in many cases staffed by–former party hacks!
The difference between now and then: 50 years ago, the party hacks cut out the middle man and pocketed the money they would have wasted on tuition to Harvard. A self-made hack is every bit as slavish in his devotion to whomever is paying the bills as an educated one.
The Harvard-educated hack of today may be better equipped to transform his hackery into a PowerPoint presentation, however.
Brooks, as part of the ‘educated class’, is understandably reluctant to reveal to readers his unwashed hack attack.
This is bigotry against the uneducated hack straight-up.
I know he’s is working from a script, but Jimmy Fallon needs to hire Brooks as a writer–and quickly!
