1. Back in 2012, David Brooks, channeling Charles Murray, argued white American polarized into 2 tribes.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/opinion/brooks-the-great-divorce.html?ref=davidbrooks …
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2. On the one side there are the "upper tribe": "they have returned to 1950s traditionalist values and practices."
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3. Upper tribe: "They have low divorce rates, arduous work ethics and strict codes to regulate their kids"
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4. As against the morally proper "upper tribe" you have the debauched and self-defeating "lower tribe"
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5. Lower tribe: "more removed from traditional bourgeois norms. They live in disorganized, postmodern neighborhoods"
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6. Like Murray, Brooks was adamant that problems of white working class were moral, not economic: they needed to obey proper bourgeois norms
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7. As per Brooks & Murray, the "lower tribe" needs policies that will instill in them proper bourgeois norms so they will stay married.
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8. Charles Murray has been twice married. David Brooks is in the process of getting a divorce (which he is subtweeting in his column).
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9. What programs and policies can we have to instill the proper bourgeois norms in David Brooks and Charles Murray?
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@Bigcitylib2 That's part of the argument yes. Also that feminism is bad for the proles.
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