To borrow Thomas Sowell’s prose in “Dismantling America”, while Brisk is not the root cause of the many problems with the “Torah observant” community, it is the embodiment, the personification, and the culmination of dangerous trends that began with the age of the Achronim.
As the Chazon Ish said, it’s better to be a “small Rishon” (like him) than a “great Achron”.
You want proof? Nah, I’ll leave that job to you.
They demand detailed answers well hidden in the future before considering any action in the present.
No, we don’t know how everything will unfold. We aren’t quite sure how to perform the Avoda yet. There are many, many questions. In fact, we are certainly getting even the questions themselves wrong.
So what?!
In Shemos 10:26 Moshe explains to Pharaoh why the Hebrews need all their flocks for the Holy Day in the desert (if we take their conversation at face value, anyway):
וגם מקננו ילך עמנו לא תשאר פרסה כי ממנו נקח לעבד את ד’ אלהינו ואנחנו לא נדע מה נעבד את ד’ עד באנו שמה.
“And our cattle, too, will go with us; not a hoof will remain, for we will take from it to worship the Lord our God, and we do not know how we will worship the Lord until we arrive there.”
(Translation based on Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg.)
Why didn’t Pharoah just seize on the lack of knowledge as an excuse?
Because he wasn’t that stupid.
הנה הידיעה (עיתון צהוב?):
איני יודע מבטן מי יצאו הדברים (אולי חיים שאולזון, הגועל נפש), השפה זולה ויש טעות סופר בכותרת. אבל אולי זה גם נכון… הרב שך מסוגל היה להפתיע.
קוריוז.
And yet, the practical result of socialist policies is to create the poor, crushed people we must then support…
Rabbis have brazenly supported the rich eating the poor since at least the Cantonist Decrees (the Malbim, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter and the like are the exceptions to prove the rule). See more here.
“There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, ‘How dull is the world today!’ Nowadays he says, ‘What a dull newspaper!'”
— Daniel J. Boorstin
(I can’t find the source, but it sounds like something he’d say.)