http://cultureby.com/2004/05/sexual_organiza.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Thu, 17 May 2012 21:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cultureby.com/2004/05/sexual_organiza.html/comment-page-1#comment-8104 me Mon, 17 May 2004 13:49:18 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1232#comment-8104 Brooks wrote a larger piece for the New York Times Magazine based on his new book. It seems he has a definitive view of happiness, which can be summed up as "Be more like me!". He drops the normal conservative line that market forces will sort things out (if more people are getting divorced, it must make them happier) and asserts, without any grounding in fact, that heterosexual marriage is simply better. Don't you people at UofC ever take statistics? Brooks surely didn't, as he often confuses cause/effect relations and statistical significance in most of his columns. Brooks wrote a larger piece for the New York Times Magazine based on his new book. It seems he has a definitive view of happiness, which can be summed up as “Be more like me!”. He drops the normal conservative line that market forces will sort things out (if more people are getting divorced, it must make them happier) and asserts, without any grounding in fact, that heterosexual marriage is simply better. Don’t you people at UofC ever take statistics? Brooks surely didn’t, as he often confuses cause/effect relations and statistical significance in most of his columns.

]]> http://cultureby.com/2004/05/sexual_organiza.html/comment-page-1#comment-8103 mpryan Fri, 07 May 2004 21:59:39 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1232#comment-8103 I saw the Brooks article in the Dallas Morning News and thought it was about a thesis or treatise, not a published book. Brooks' political perspective was lost on me but now I see it, it doesn't matter to me. I'm interested in exactly where in 'the city' persons of my ethnic, educational and economic persuasion may be meeting in hopes of sex. I know persons representative of those described in the Brooks story because I work in a field in which I encounter all of them, daily. There's a 'high school clique' mentality to this place different from Houston, where I lived as long -- not going to Chicago for romance! I saw the Brooks article in the Dallas Morning News and thought it was about a thesis or treatise, not a published book. Brooks’ political perspective was lost on me but now I see it, it doesn’t matter to me. I’m interested in exactly where in ‘the city’ persons of my ethnic, educational and economic persuasion may be meeting in hopes of sex. I know persons representative of those described in the Brooks story because I work in a field in which I encounter all of them, daily. There’s a ‘high school clique’ mentality to this place different from Houston, where I lived as long — not going to Chicago for romance!

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