David Brooks on Knowing Others (and Ourselves) | The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk

David Brooks is a writer and a columnist at the New York Times. He is the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement. His latest book is How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and David Brooks discuss how he came to coin the term “bourgeois bohemians” (or “bobos”); whether today’s elite shares any traits with the bobo elite that first succeeded the WASPs; and how we can inspire stronger and deeper social connections between individuals of all backgrounds.
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[@Ryanandboys]

One of my best friends from college is from the old Boston brahmin Dana family but moved 3 generations to upstate NY and are very successful farmers and started going to Cornell instead of Harvard. There was still alot of family pressure to go to the beet college and be very successful and wasnt a dynamic that I had in my family at all.

[@dangood8839]

Great conversation both. Something that I've come across in my psychology degree is the concept of othering people (the Other).
It's a way of placing all the negativity within a group for example, and so we make it impossible to even attempt to understand them.

[@Tunick1902]

The theory that people without the mooring of religious groups turn to alienating politics like Trump is demonstrably wrong; Trump’s greatest degree of support cones from the religiously committed evangelicals.