The Multicultural Empire « humanitiesunderground. 12. David Brooks. Self Help. Self Help, by Samuel Smiles The Project Gutenberg EBook of Self Help, by Samuel Smiles Copyright laws are changing all over the world.
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“We put too much faith in systems, and look too little to men.” “Heaven helps those who help themselves” is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. Even the best institutions can give a man no active help. The Government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflex of the individuals composing it. Old fallacies as to human progress are constantly turning up. Pankaj Mishra reviews ‘Civilisation’ by Niall Ferguson · LRB 3 November 2011. ‘Civilisation’s going to pieces,’ Tom Buchanan, the Yale-educated millionaire, abruptly informs Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby.
‘I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The Rise of the Colored Empires by this man Goddard? … The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be – will be utterly submerged.’ ‘Tom’s getting very profound,’ his wife Daisy remarks. Buchanan carries on: ‘This fellow has worked out the whole thing. ‘There was something pathetic in his concentration,’ Carraway, the narrator, observes, ‘as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more.’ Scott Fitzgerald based Goddard, at least partly, on Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, the author of the bestseller The Rising Tide of Color against White World Supremacy (1920). Hysteria about ‘white civilisation’ gripped America after Europe’s self-mutilation in the First World War had encouraged political assertiveness among subjugated peoples from Egypt to China.
Home - Niall Ferguson. David Brooks. David Brooks became a New York Times Op-Ed columnist in September 2003.
He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and he is currently a commentator on "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. " He is the author of "Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There" and “On Paradise Drive : How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense,” both published by Simon & Schuster. His most recent book is “The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement,” published by Random House in March 2011. Mr. Brooks joined The Weekly Standard at its inception in September 1995, having worked at The Wall Street Journal for the previous nine years. Mr. He is also a frequent analyst on NPR’s "All Things Considered" and the "Diane Rehm Show.
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