David Brooks Interview: How To Live A Meaningful Life

so living a meaningful life involves spending 50 bucks on whiskey with your burger then whinging about the cost of living.

who knew!

Recommended: David Brooks, “The Road to Character.” A mix of lives of others through David’s eyes. SO GOOD. Evaluating my next choice by him. By the way, I’m Progressive in politics and social justice yet learn so much from this man. I don’t agree with many of his political stances, but he communicates and critiques values. As I said, so much to absorb from this man.❤

David Brooks… when your socialist outfit needs a fake conservative to proclaim it is not monolithic, he’s the man.

David Brooks sweet ...

By claiming your bar tab at an airport lounge is what you paid for just a burger and fries to make some kind of snowflake right-wing talking point? Just a guess.

One of the best interviews I’ve ever listened to. Long but so packed with important quotes and wonderful stories. He admits to being a work in progress. He writes so many books as a project to educate himself. Many write him off as a Conservative but most have no idea what that really means. It’s actually the polar opposite of how we see today’s repub party behaving.

Replacing a lower love with a higher love
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Lies become truths when people believe them

I am a better person for having listened to David Brooks! He is absolutely fascinating and such a great speaker! Yes, if he ever ran for president I would vote for him absolutely, even though I consider myself a Democrat! Until this great interview I had never even heard of him before! His lifetime of learning and reading and questioning and such incredible multi-faceted insight and his stories were so interesting! He is one of the most learned individuals yet such a compassionate individual with such a rich background!🌟

I was not expecting to cry during an interview featuring Mr. Brooks. A good cry is a gift. THank you Kunhardt and Mr. Brooks.

Enlightenment comes with voluminous verbosity to the virulently disillusioned. Mr Brooks’ penance for fanboying Gingrich’s Republican Revolution now culminates with Rabbinical opining while democracy is on a knife’s edge

"How to Live a Meaningful Life". #1: Don't cover up your stupidity by saying "I meant it as a joke".

Brooks is neither conservative or liberal. He's anything you will pay him to be.

🔸️This brother is in his full state of humanity 🔸️

Alcoholic

Brooks you are right about abandonment and willingness to continue to be there in a safe way…❤️

Wow, you just defined women in the 50s as being bored…tone def a little and o am 48.

Brooks had a restaurant bill tab of $78 of which $12 for the meal and $66 from the bar thats the meaning of a fulfilling life

It is refreshing to hear a person with some common sense and wisdom as well as a balanced perspective. I feel compelled to share this with several people as so many people could benefit from his wisdom.

Finding joy in regular day!

Love more than oneself!

Zenophibia

Let go traditions, that are common place for certain families! Yet for some don't exist

Ritual to the neighborhood, women watchful of all of children.

Earned wisdom by via hard knocks

Brooks is delusional.

There was NEVER a time when conservatism was about anything except making the rich richer and keeping the poor poor.

That time when conservatives cared about "the least among us" ... when was that?

Because I'm 65 and that sure as fuck wasn't in my lifetime.

Conservatism has ALWAYS been about fucking people who work for a living so that the leisure class can live like kings.

The rest of it ... the racism, xenophobia, the guns and bible bullshit, etc. was just a means to an end.

Beautiful interview! Thank you David!

Is david on social media? He is so inspirational.. What a beautiful human being.. We need zillions more of him.. Then the human race has a chance, maybe 🤷🏾‍♂️💙🇬🇧

Exactly what lies has Trump told?

I like him, but he's in the wrong political party, ao I also feel sorry for him.

Perhaps he meant no sense of enduring intimacy. Lots of fleeting intimacy. Or intimacy combined with commitment.

This is Amazing Content

I want to get that forgery proof inheritance plan around the first of the year pay 5 to 25% of my Wealth to make sure my kids don’t fight

Immigrants didn't define America. Anglo-Protestant settlers did that.

Amazing. I need to listen to this again.

Why won’t he run for president? He would have my vote! Friday’s are the best episodes of PBS NewsHour because of him❤️ I look forward to it every week!

I love you in this interview, thank you for your inspiration. Your thoughts made me think about my life and character,

David I think its courage with humility. Those two together.

Sorry, David.
But I remember you waxing enthusiastically about "COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIONISM" and "A MILLION POINTS OF LIGHT". Your schmaltzy endorsement of Dubya'ism helped elect the village idiot who then killed millions in the Middle East for no good reason.
Over the years you have been way too mealy-mouth to stand up for real progress, instead rooting for ideas that were devised by Mad Men to lull the oppressed into thinking they might finally get a fair shake.
Now are planet is going down the tubes, and here you are still singing the praises of "moderate thought".
I suggest a heroic dose of a psychedelic twice monthly, until you finally SEE with clarity.

I've only seen the first 10 minutes of this show and he keeps talking about the 50's and 60's, comparing then to now.
What about the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's, 20's ?

A social connedservative milk toast.

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wow yeah … a meaningful life .. how about these gotdamned home prices or the price of FOOD … it’s cool, I’ll just find meaning in living in a tent and eating out of a TRASH CAN.

Brooks does come across as a kind and thoughtful guy, and I've been reading him for years. But at the end of the day he's just a standard republican that is always in favor of slashing social programs to the benefit of the wealthy; was a self-deluded cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq when it was obvious that the whole notion was built on lies; and always turns a blind eye to the plight of the Palestinian people. I consider those things to be epic failures of judgement and compassion.

Wow, I couldn’t stop listening. Awesome interview.

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