This Be The Verse
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
from the controversial Jacobin piece on bro-bashing. "While intergenerational critique is both healthy and necessary, I’d hope we could transcend the Oedipal alienation of “This Be the Verse…”" I don't think it's Oedipal, just realistic. Parents can be assholes because they're miserable. There's little accountability. And possibly parents are easily tempted to fuck up their kids. Power corrupts. So don't have kids.
This started with a feminist lefty tweeting about a "bro-battle" between Henwood and Piketty. If I remember correctly Henwood used to write about Harold Bloom who wrote about the fimsily related Anxiety of Influence in literature.
Henwood's criticism of Piketty was that he was too moderate. Henwood is also a critic of DeBlasio and Obama, so perhaps Aaron Bady is a supporter of them and considers Henwood's criticisms as "prolier-than-thou" and leftier than thou and conceives of it as tough "bro" behavior. But then again he mentions "data."
Henwood's criticism of Piketty was that he was too moderate. Henwood is also a critic of DeBlasio and Obama, so perhaps Aaron Bady is a supporter of them and considers Henwood's criticisms as "prolier-than-thou" and leftier than thou and conceives of it as tough "bro" behavior. But then again he mentions "data."
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