Freedom is Slavery

Shorter David Brooks,  "Freedom Loses One", New York Times, 2 April 2013:

So, Sodomites, you really want to get married? How very Burkean of you. Join the PTA and Opus Dei while you're up, too. And a bowling league. Won't you be the hip little things.

I know, I know, I used to wonder why they wanted to be allowed to be generals and archbishops. It's really all about the drag, I suppose. Nothing whatever to do with human dignity or asserting an actual social existence as opposed to just being part of the Brooksian decor, or any of that Jacobin stuff.

"The Regent [Prime Minister Archbishop Nascimos on his visit to C-in-C General Padgett] was supposed to be coming with a retinue of 30 at the most. In fact he arrived with an entourage of perhaps 100, including staff, boy scouts, journalists and a personal bodyguard of 28 Evzones, very picturesque in their quaint skirts, white tights, and shoes with huge black pom-poms. The regent impressed everyone by his bearing, charm, shrewdness and knowledge. Not so his staff who, to put it mildly, were 'sloppy'." (John Dearfield)

I was thinking of doing another post about this insane column, but Matt Taibbi has dealt with it pretty aptly, if earnestly, and I'd like to go think about something else.