David Brooks Pithed on Me (w/poll)

Many readers no doubt observed that if today's prostate-aged moochers wanted to loaf around all day reading books and tossing off their vacuous opinions into the ether, they should have had the foresight to become newspaper columnists.

Others will note sardonically that the only really vibrant counterculture in the United States today is laziness.

Follow me after the jump to find out why the ever-reactionary Brooks is just following a fine old aristocratic tradition of ignoring basic economics and social history to instead pass a condescending moral judgment on the lower classes.