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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on June 10, 2011, 10:51:34 AM
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Conservatives have a new celebrity spokesman-writer-thinker-philosopher. David Mamet, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, movie director and sometime essayist, has come out of the closet.
No longer, he declares, is he a "brain-dead liberal." Now he's a wide-awake conservative. Some time after arriving in Hollywood, of all places, and at age 60, he engaged in a conversation with his Republican rabbi (where did he find one?), who gave him the books of conservative writers, such as Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Milton Friedman and Paul Johnson. He had a dramatic political conversion.
Mamet re-evaluated his own heroes, starting with the playwright Bertolt Brecht, whom he now describes as "a show dog of communism," who theatrically criticized capitalism even as his royalties allowed him to live comfortably on capital deposited in a Swiss bank account. Karl Marx, he discovered, never earned his money, but mooched on Friedrich Engels' family, which may account for his ideas about how wealth should be distributed.
Mamet writes of his conversion to free market economics, his discovery of the errors of multiculturalism, in a new book titled, "The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture." He sounds like a latter-day Candide marooned in postmodern America, where liberals think they have all the answers for creating the "best of all possible worlds." He renders them as absurd as Dr. Pangloss, who saw even the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 as among "the best of all possible worlds."
"The great wickedness of Liberalism," Mamet discovered, "was that those who devise the ever-new state Utopias ... set out to bankrupt and restrict not themselves, but others."
More at LINK (http://townhall.com/columnists/suzannefields/2011/06/10/david_mamet_turns_right/page/full/)
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The DUmp reacts (with predictability, of course):
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 11:16 PM
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27. Never heard of him.
Skidmore (1000+ posts) Mon May-30-11 10:45 AM
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14. Never heard of him.
jorno67 (415 posts) Mon May-30-11 10:52 AM
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15. **** you David Mamet
Geniuses.
There was a good article in the Weekly Standard as well.
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Geniuses.
There was a good article in the Weekly Standard as well.
It makes me feel like such an "elite" that I know who he is and the DUmmies don't. :-)
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Looks like someones mole said something wrong...
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Tom Wolfe ("Bonfire of the Vanities" and "The Right Stuff") is conservative as well. He actually even defended George Bush. "Conservative" seems to be the new rebel in Hollywood.
Cindie
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DUmmie said...
Karl Marx worked as a journalist and did so in a foreign country. I suspect he had to work reasonably hard to make a living.
Another journalist that couldn't make a living...so he invented communism to steal him a living...it didn't catch on before he died tho.