Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-klavan19mar19" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/news/op inion/la-oe-klavan19mar19</a>,0,1967288.story >>Mamet, on the other hand, is a pillar of the arts. I don't know if he's America's greatest living playwright, but I'm hard-pressed to think of a better one. Many people know him for his movie work: "The Untouchables," "The Edge," "House of Games," etc. But it's plays such as "American Buffalo," "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Speed-the-Plow" that represent his best writing by far, each searching for remnants of heroism in the rubble of modernity through a hilarious and poetic tough-guy vernacular. The journey 60-year-old Mamet has made from being what he calls a "brain-dead liberal" to acknowledging the genius of philosophers such as Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman is a difficult one for an artist. We in the creative world swim in liberalism like fish in water. It's hard for us even to imagine that one might evolve and walk on dry land. << And what Mr. Mamet wrote at the Village Voice.... (Warning, one 4 letter word can be found at the link below) <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811" target="_blank">http://www.villagevoice.com/ne ws/0811</a>%2Cwhy-i-am-no-longer-a-brain-dead-liberal%2C374064%2C1.html/full (Selected paragraphs only) >>I found not only that I didn't trust the current government (that, to me, was no surprise), but that an impartial review revealed that the faults of this president—whom I, a good liberal, considered a monster—were little different from those of a president whom I revered. Bush got us into Iraq, JFK into Vietnam. Bush stole the election in Florida; Kennedy stole his in Chicago. Bush outed a CIA agent; Kennedy left hundreds of them to die in the surf at the Bay of Pigs. Bush lied about his military service; Kennedy accepted a Pulitzer Prize for a book written by Ted Sorenson. Bush was in bed with the Saudis, Kennedy with the Mafia. Oh.<< >>What about the role of government? Well, in the abstract, coming from my time and background, I thought it was a rather good thing, but tallying up the ledger in those things which affect me and in those things I observe, I am hard-pressed to see an instance where the intervention of the government led to much beyond sorrow.<<
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>It's hard for us even to imagine that one might evolve and walk on dry land.<< That's because conservatives aren't supposed to believe in things like evolution.
Originally Posted By DAR I wonder what Mamet would say about the Presidential Election We're adding a little something to this year's Presidential Election. As you all know, first prize is the Presidency. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF >>Playwright David Mamet is now a conservative<< And I should care about this for what reason?
Originally Posted By RC Collins >>That's because conservatives aren't supposed to believe in things like evolution.<< Wrong. Plenty of conservatives believe in some version/level of evolution. Supernaturalists don't believe in philosophical naturalism. So, yes, many conservatives (not all) refuse to agree that everything in the universe and the universe itself is the result of natural processes without any transcendent intervention or influence.
