Quoted in full for the gobsmackery of such cant, & 2 avoid cherrypicking charges.
E.g. We're losing on #COVID19 becoz "We just got tired so we’re giving up."
This is Brooks' goto move: denial of agency in any crap outcome 4 R leadership...
*If it weren't for bad faith, Brooks wld have no faith at all.
Bluntly: this is flat out intellectual dishonesty.
I mean, seriously. That's his complaint?
No accident, that is, that this natural philosophizing was happening as the British slave trade was taking off...
Silly me....