John Maloney

“And there was something else. When you look from today back to 1945, you are looking into a different cultural epoch, across a sort of narcissism line. Humility, the sense that nobody is that different from anybody else, was a large part of the culture then.”

David Brooks | NY Times “High Five Nation” - on how the U.S. celebrated winning WWII 

Rarely do I agree with a conservative like Brooks (although I did enjoy when he snarked my old startup as ”the official hipster parents meeting place” in this piece) — but he’s onto something here.  What a week of narcissism.