While on the road, I've been reading On Paradise Drive by David Brooks. It has many nuggets that may be real or fake but are nonetheless thought-provoking.
An excerpt:
The inescapable fact is that the universe is divided between Blondes and Brunettes. This is not a matter of the color of one's hair. This is a cosmic trait. The Cosmic Blonde floats through life on a beam of sunshine, from success to success. The Cosmic Brunette obsesses and reflects, frets and fumes, turns inward, and clings to the view that the examined life is the only life worth living, despite all the evidence to the contrary. The Cosmic Brunette writes and reads books, worries, condemns and evaluates, judges, discerns and doubts. The Cosmic Blonde water-skis.
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Thanks for this post.
I'm beginning to read Jean Baudrillard's "the intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact" which posits a somewhat similar (albeit more brunette and sophisticated version) of this division in the world. I was wracking my feeble (dyed blonde) brains for the David Brook's quote on this subject, and you led me right to the proper shelf in my library.
Thanks.
And I do think he has a valid point...
If only we could somehow transcend that boundary and communicate that all blondes are dye jobs... perhaps end the violence bred of resentment.
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