tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3587112231145093002..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: RELAX, DAVID: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH ISN'T COMMIE YETSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-8515201502074332822015-06-25T20:46:50.639-04:002015-06-25T20:46:50.639-04:00Brooks himself points out the underlying flaw in h...Brooks himself points out the underlying flaw in his own argument: "... the qualities that do harm can often, when carefully directed, do enormous good." See, he also, elsewhere, insists that capitalism works best when it is completely unrestricted, no laws against fraud, no laws to restrict monopoly, no laws against usury -- but plenty of laws against jaywalking or smoking pot or failing to make a payment on your student debt. I wonder how this accurate insight managed to find a fault line to slip out in his writing.Procopiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17554355440319405363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-50757324641696358122015-06-23T16:37:32.515-04:002015-06-23T16:37:32.515-04:00Brooks needs to fact check his history (ha!) - the...Brooks needs to fact check his history (ha!) - the Catholic Church has always been anti-capitalist. They've also been anti-communist and anti-democracy.<br /><br />The Church continues to believe that the proper state of man is something resembling the Great Chain of Being - there should be God, and below God the angels, and below the angels men, and below men women, and below the women are the beasts.<br /><br />Among the men, at the top are the various kings (wisely advised by the guys with the direct pipeline to God - the Church), followed by the nobility, then the lesser aristocracy, then the freemen, then the serfs. This is the way the world is supposed to work according to every Pope since those new-fangled Enlightenment ideas hit the world.<br /><br />So David can relax - this Pope doesn't seem to be any more pro-democracy or anti-capitalist than any of the others that have held the Papal throne for the past 300 years (he's a bit more vocal on why people need to be "good stewards" of the Earth, though, which is what has Brooks's knickers in a twist here...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-60610375707753152282015-06-23T14:49:05.723-04:002015-06-23T14:49:05.723-04:00tony,
Unless you're one of the top 1% and look...tony,<br />Unless you're one of the top 1% and looking for some salve to apply to your unbridled greed, you don't read Bobo.<br /><br />Almost every single one of his columns is exactly the same.<br />Every one!<br />He describes two sides. <br />Then he creates strawmen and bullshit when talking about the side he doesn't like - hint: the more liberal one - and then proves that he and centrism or conservatism is ultimately right!<br />"Oh, copy-boy! Take this to the printer<br /><br />Ah, but he does this with such "humility..."Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-74046240968795173312015-06-23T14:18:47.764-04:002015-06-23T14:18:47.764-04:00If David Brooks think a guy that was a bishop in S...If David Brooks think a guy that was a bishop in South America, does not understand how capitalism works....his opinion is not worth reading.tony in san diegohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17610599999844228511noreply@blogger.com