25 Replies to “David Mamet’s Political Awakening”

  3. “that guy is creepy looking.”
    Now thats a good reason not to consider his argument! Seems to me your OBSERVATION is too CASUAL and lacks and kind of critical thinking if you can’t get past what a person looks like.

  4. He’s become a libertarian not a conservative or modern liberal. A good way to be IMHO.

  5. What Chris said! Your handle – casualobserver – suits you well. I have just started Secret Knowledge. It looks to be an interesting read.

  6. Stossel and Mamet, author of The Secret Knowledge: On the Left’s Dismantling of America, discussing F.A. Hayek’s The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism:
    Stossel: The politician has a conceit that he can plan everybody’s life and the world will be better.
    Mamet: Yeah.
    ‘This remind you of any politician we know? Too bad this politician never read Hayek’s and Mamet’s books. ‘Too late now …

  7. “Fatal Conceit”. When that title came up I immediately thought of Jack Layton. And the rest of the Lib-left herd.

  8. that guy is creepy looking.
    Posted by: casualobserver at August 25, 2011 7:03 AM
    Better hug your blankey and keep your night-lights on then…’cause he’s coming to get you!!!!

  9. Quoting Hyak(?) and Freidman is interesting and worthwhile. I’m a little surprised that Aynn Rand wasn’t mentioned. ‘The New Intellectual’ pretty much nails what is going on today.

  10. What’s looks got to do with it!
    Usually liberals cannot be converted so he is an Anomaly.
    Here is a quote from Eric Hoffer that is apropos for liberals.
    “An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to an empty head.”

  11. “that guy is creepy looking.”
    Good radio voice, though. Am just sayin’.
    When he’s asked what changed him, begins with “Well … I met a couple of conservatives.”
    It’s funny how that never works the other way around: the more liberals I meet, the more they and their ideas creep me right out.

  12. Its hard to turn Liberals because usually they live in a cocooned existence surrounded by like minded true believers every minite of the day. Just like in cults.

  13. This is a prime example of how to stay a liberal past your normal period of awakening.
    Most people start out as naive utopian liberals due to indoctrinating, but the realities of life soon make it apparent the liberal philosophy, as evangelized by our public school and media indoctrinators, has huge gaps of logic and reality. Life drives most to their senses about age 30. Rejecting the absurdity of utopian liberalism is essentially part of the normal maturation process in North America.
    For someone to miss this natural political catharsis one must be either too intellectually stunted or psychologically arrested to accept reality – OR- be isolated in some lib-left echo chamber – an ideological gulag which demands conformity to lib-left idioms where inbred thinking is the norm. Hollywood is such an ideological gulag – as is the corporate media, the academic campus cliques and the subsidized arts communities.
    Obviously this man’s intellect and passion for truth was strong enough for him to break free of the lib-left plantation. Good for him, better late than never.

  14. “Quoting Hyak(?) and Freidman is interesting and worthwhile. I’m a little surprised that Aynn Rand wasn’t mentioned.”
    Milton Friedman’s books are short and concise. I’ve never made it through Ayn Rand, although I’ve tried a few times.

  15. Liberalism is a fanatical quasi religion easily accepted by people with particular mental/ emotional impairments. Even some smart people are afflicted as with any fundamentalism or mental illness.
    It’s the articulate ones that are scary dangerous to our society, not unlike an articulate Ted Bundy serial murderer. They each operate below the radar or have the manipulative skills to spread their ideological madness and murder.

  16. Now my wife’s going to get ticked at me again and she will say “Where are you going to put that book? I’ll have to build you another bookcase and where will we put that when we get off the farm into a condo? Sheesh, problems!
    BTW, Mamet looks a lot less creepy than some self aggrandizing politician trying to look like Lenin.

  17. Revnant Dream: “Its hard to turn Liberals because usually they live in a cocooned existence surrounded by like minded true believers every minite of the day.”
    Mamet has admitted that he’d never met a conservative until he was 62!!!! I think that’s because, unlike the rest of us, he lived within the entertainment industry and was cocooned by lots of money, both situations which would protect against reality hitting too hard on any one day — or any one year, in his case.
    I’m half way through his book which, at times, is hard to follow as he’s writing as fast as he can, almost stream of consciousness. He gallops along, at a frantic pace, like he’s trying to get into one book all of his recent insights, which are plenty.
    I guess, because he’s got so much money and a stellar reputation as a playwright, he won’t have to worry about losing his job or his status. He’ll be able to withstand the Leftard bullies’ salvos and get a few punches in himself.
    I’m glad he’s on our side. “And soul by soul and silently …” as I Vow to Thee My Country puts it, conservatism creeps up on the best thinkers and blows their minds! This is good!
    (An aside: Does your wife build bookcases, Ken (Kulak)? That would be a handy talent to have … around here too! Too many books to read, too little time or space!)

  18. It irks me when people continue to refer to lefties as “liberals”. Because they are NOT.
    Liberals believe in freedom. Lefties believe in ruling others. In another thread, people are complaining about all the rules and regulations foisted upon them by lefty governments. This is NOT liberalism. Trying to micromanage the lives of people and business is NOT liberalism.
    Can we at least start by calling the lefties what they really are? Fascists. People who seek to control how we live, what we do, and most importantly, what we think. We’ve all complained about how lefties won’t even allow you to debate certain things. Think Bambam’s doing a bad job? “Racist!” Think abortion is wrong? “Anti-woman!” or of course “Christian!”. Think the gun registry is a waste? “Gun nut!”. True liberals welcome all ideas, to be debated openly and honestly. Lefties try to stifle debate wherever possible, because they know in their hearts they’d lose in the open court of ideas. Fascists.
    FASCISTS. That’s what the bastards are, and we should start letting them know we’re on to their game.

  19. I don’t find him creepy looking.
    There’s been so much concerned concern about Mamet lately – people in the NYT and Macleans and anywhere you like, concerned in a very concerned way about how Mamet has now become narrow minded and will therefore perhaps no longer be able to produce good, thoughtful art the way that yer average deeply nuanced Hollywood commie so obviously can. Ugh.
    And his wife is a really great singer.

  20. Last words sum it all up nicely:
    “…the guy in government can’t know everything.”

  21. Further to what Black Mamba said, take a look at this “review” by Louise Rubacky.
    The first thought that comes to mind is, “Who is Louise Rubacky?” Then, after reading her words, a second thought comes to the fore: “Who cares!”
    Ms. Rubacky is typical of Lefists everywhere. She doesn’t remotely understand what conservatism means. She was probably not very good at math or original thought for that matter. She just goes along with the crowd, more scared of getting ostracized from the in-crowd than thinking for herself.
    Dennis Miller frequently talks about his transition from the Left to the Right and posits who peculiar it is that many people who once thought of him as “brilliant” and “hilarious” suddenly don’t feel that way anymore simply because he has expressed his conservative views on really just 3 issues:
    – Islamic terrorism
    – Fiscal responsibility
    – The U.S. – Mexican border
    That’s it. On most everything else he’s very “liberal”. But unless you walk lock-step with the drones on Each-And-Every-Single-Issue you are deemed to be a traitor to their cult religion … errrr political philosophy.

  22. Our lesson: Libs and the left know nothing but intend to rule us all.
    Past is prologue. They know it and live it.
    We have been long to the fight. We conservatives have always assumed that the ‘live and let live’ adage was good for everybody.
    Usually it is. But while we were living our lives and assuming everyone else’s freedom to do the same these stinkers were educating our children in THEIR propaganda, so that the likes of a Mamet could actually attain the age of 62 and profess to have never having met a conservative!-
    Really? I am sure he met plenty of them but they were bullied into silence in the communistic Hollywood environment.
    As he describes it, he tried to sway the conservative, feeling initially the conservative was wrong, not himself. He thought he knew it all.
    Once be began to read what the conservative brought him, he began to understand just what the left has done and is doing to society.
    The US is being governed in all aspects of life by know nothings intent on changing society and ruling it forever.
    Too bad Ayn Rand is considered too long to get through. It is a most worthwhile read considering what we are living right now.
    Written in 1957 it could be taken from todays headlines. Do not underestimate it’s power just because Ayn is windy.
    As Mark Levin often states: Educate yourself and then your children, grand children and anybody else you can get to listen.
    This is a perfect example of that edict.
    One we should all take seriously.

  23. What does “creepy” have to do with the worth and truth of his statements? Mr. Mamet has the intelligence to admit the ideas he held were wrong and the strength to change those ideas publicly and to suffer the derision that he will get in the community he inhabits.
    Publicly calling a man “creepy” shows little maturity and even less kindness.

  24. With “creepy” in mind, I watched.
    Mamet’s actually got a nice face and a lovely smile—which is, of course, entirely beside the point!
    (On the other hand, I believe that Jack’s wholesome, good looks have pulled the wool over lots of eyes . . .)

  25. KevinB >
    I believe most people understand that the left is not Liberal by any measure of it’s definition. Many or most do however self identify as “Liberals” via a form of “Newspeak” to hide the overt pathological hypocricy within thier ranks.
    It’s not unfounded to attack the modern “Liberals” in their new lair as they have destroyed all vestages of the true ideologies derived from classical liberalism.
    Even they know Liberalism is a filty word these days, but thats why they’ve shifted newspeak disguises to “Progressive” as of late.

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