Metaphor Foul!

I call "foul" on David Brooks -- political columnists can't use elephant metaphors where "elephant" doesn't stand for "the Republican Party." This stuff's too confusing for Sunday morning.

Comments

I call foul linking to an article few will have deigned to pay for.

Posted by talboito | December 3, 2006 3:18 PM

Oh, I don't know . . . I liked the implication that the republicans had no prefrontal cortex, and blundered along on animal instinct.

Posted by Barry | December 3, 2006 5:52 PM

The elephant and The Republican Party should no longer by linked. Old elephants show young elephants the dead. The GOP has decided that it's unpatriotic to show the dead.

Posted by Jeffrey Davis | December 3, 2006 5:58 PM

The metaphor was truly goofy. I liked the content of the piece, though, and I don't always like Brooks.

He is never highbrow on this kind of stuff, but rather does an "average guy's thoughts and interpretation" shtick, which I've seen some in the blogosphere mock as a sort of "deep thoughts by Jack Tandy." I think that's unfair, because you can always investigate what such a writer is bringing up further. (In a way, that's what I like about a lot of your own blogging, you take the same approach to topics in which you do not have much expertise.)

That's what happened to me with this piece--it reminded me of a long-time interest of mine, Simon LeBon's "The Crowd," and I plan on checking out Goleman and Sternberg, having already read "Blink."

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