{"id":674,"date":"2012-08-08T13:08:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cussac.eu\/?p=674"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T12:08:32","slug":"are-we-all-social-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariehelenecussac.eu\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Are we all social animals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no hear, right? It&#8217;s been a while indeed since I regularly pinpointed articles I found had some flavour. I guess it took me a while to adapt to the non-Brussels, non-EU focused, non-political life. Yet habits are resistant. Can one really stop thinking about the way the world&#8217;s going? It&#8217;d give us such a good rest though! Yet personally I fail overlooking a few things.<br \/>\nSo today I&#8217;m with you and wish to pinpoint that <strong>book of David Brooks&#8217;, <em>The Social Animal<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/mariehelenecussac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Brooks_SocialAnimal_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-675\" title=\"Brooks_SocialAnimal_2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mariehelenecussac.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Brooks_SocialAnimal_2011-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Sure you already heard of it; but <strong>have you read it?<\/strong>Ok, it&#8217;s a good 500 pages (and it looks huge, especially when like me, the book stays out at night in the garden and undergoes a massive thunder storm, which makes the poor wet book now look like a 1,000 page Bible!) But what a delight! Or rather some savoury &#8220;delicatessen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been running the corridors of international institutions, political circles, receptions, you name it&#8230; you may recognise quite a few familiar stories and patterns, acquaintances, friends, yourself? Get in the back seat and enjoy the reading.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Video<\/strong> (TED Talk) about <em>The Social Animal<\/em> by the author David Brook himself <strong><a title=\"TED Talk Brooks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/david_brooks_the_social_animal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reviews<\/strong> about <em>The Social Animal, A Story of How Success Happens<\/em>(David Brooks, 2011)\n<ul>\n<li>in <em>The Guardian<\/em> <strong><a title=\"TheGuardian_BookReview_June2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jun\/01\/social-animal-david-brooks-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>in the NY Times <strong><a title=\"NYTimes_BookReview_2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/13\/books\/review\/book-review-the-social-animal-by-david-brooks.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>and in <em>The New Yorker<\/em> <strong><a title=\"TheNewYorker_BookReview_2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/01\/17\/110117fa_fact_brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no hear, right? It&#8217;s been a while indeed since I regularly pinpointed articles I found had some flavour. 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