Osita Nwanevu on Twitter: "One gets the feeling these days that we are all sliding towards certain bleak inevitabilities -- the final collapse of American democracy, for instance, or a David Brooks column on Cat Person."

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1. the, amanda, the‏ @amandacroqueta 11 Dec 2017
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  i like to think my anxiety handles a pretty good inventory of the day’s most probable disasters but a Brooks column on Cat Person caught me cold
  
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1. Sarah Hurst‏ @Life_Disrupted 11 Dec 2017
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  David Brooks: This place sells Red Vines. Is it too upmarket for my date, I wondered suddenly.
  
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1. Jared, INTERNATIONAL THOUGHT LEADER & STAR‏ @jaredtm 11 Dec 2017
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  By Cat Person do you mean like, Webber, Stevens, or Sphinx?
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1. Curbing enthusiasm for 2021‏ @zugerd 11 Dec 2017
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  We know whose side Brooksie would take. But he'd do it while quoting Niebuhr.
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1. Sally J.‏ @sally_j 11 Dec 2017
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  No. Please, no.
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1. Jason Carrick‏ @JasonACarrick 11 Dec 2017
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  Well-played. Hadn't thought my sense of existential dread could go higher today, but here are.
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1. Joshua M. Patton‏ @JoshuaMPatton 11 Dec 2017
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  This seems like one of those things you shouldn't even put out into the world lest it come true.
  
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1. Eric Bottorff‏ @the_torff 11 Dec 2017
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  To be fair, *every* David Brooks column inches us a little closer to the collapse of all civilization.
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