Tuesday, March 09, 2004

Jarvis On Brooks And Soft-Core Narcissism

This post by Jeff Jarvis is very interesting. He thinks David's Brooks argument about who's more frightening -- Mel Gibson with his fire-and-brimstone religiosity or Mitch Albom with his new-agey "easygoing narcissism" -- is an easy pick. He finds Gibson more scary.

I say they are both seriously terrifying.

And as for David Brooks claim that "nobody even thinks to protest or get angry about it" I must correct him and mention that Chris Locke is all over this subject and is shopping a book proposal on the very notion he describes. Call it "New agey Non-thinking." if you need a tagline.