Brooks is on in about an hour and twenty minutes. 9:29Pm ET.
David Brooks spoke about the growth of suburbs in America and described the different suburban "zones" he discovered while researching his book, On Paradise Drive, published by Simon and Schuster. In his book, he argues that because Americans are increasingly moving to suburban areas where, to a large extent, only like-minded individuals live, the country is becoming extremely divided. A reflection of this development, he says, can been seen in the rhetoric of the two major political parties in Washington. Mr. Brooks added that while the country is divided politically, there exists a common energy that continues to define us as Americans. Afterwards, Mr. Brooks took questions from the audience.
This view ties in exactly with the point of the "Bell Curve," which got lost in the racial part of the book. The point was that people of similiar intelligence and interests flock together. They were upset about it, but it is a perfectly normal reaction.
We are getting a lot of "view with alarm," from the educators about the fact that higher income people have more kids in college. Higher income people have higher intelligence, viewed as a group. It is normal and natural that they would have higher intelligence kids who would be both pressured and want to finish college. |
