As per normal, Obama's actions cause the
gasket-blowing Brooks to drop a few time-honored conservative catchphrases--'unintended consequences', etc--for the peanut gallery. But what's funny--though absolutely contradictory--is how he claims to be in favor of gradual change, not disruptive change. Yet what do market-worshipping conservatives look to invest in every day? Companies with new killer apps that will bring 'disruptive change'--forcing everyone to buy them and to buy in to the new paradigm--or die. That's what modern technology is built on--wave after wave of disruptive change.
Also, as for Burke--the 18th century great mascot of fuddy-duddy-ism. I'm all for the 'wisdom of the ages'. But what is it? Who has access to it? Who administers it? Who measures it? Funny, the wisdom of the ages once said monarchs should rule by blood, women and blacks were inferior, Christianity (or Islam or Hinduism) was the one true revelation of God, etc. Wisdom--its a great business. So many flavors to sell.
When we think about seven years ago and Iraq--the program for a New American century--huge 'epistemologically immodest' top-down world-brokering initiatives--was Brooks skeptical about those? No he was the head neocon cheerleader for them.
