Posted on 04/13/2022 10:54:59 PM PDT by bitt
Thanks! I just saw the additional info you added.
David Mamet, raised in a communist-sympathizing household, has made a remarkable conversion to conservatism.
He is a multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter who has taken the risks of denouncing the results of decades of liberal progressivism. As a result, he has not won a conventional media-star award since, and never will again, like David Horowitz.
A brave, brave man whose natural intelligence simply would not allow him to keep believing the lies.
This is an excellent essay by a writer’s writer.
Had you opened the link, you would have seen that the editor used graphic placement rather than a colon between the title and the subheadline.
It is, I believe, a metaphor for the United States. He sees our country in an apparent state of advanced disrepair, but notes the sturdy "foundation and farm" -- our Constitution and history of creative achievement and economic strength.
Your multiple posts about this guy instead of what he wrote sound triggered. You even compared your "stories" to his, as if his long history as an acclaimed writer is no great shakes. Why does he bother you so much?
I noted above, several times, that I knew that I was indulging in speculation, that it was an entirely subjective impression, and that my discussion with a certain other FReeper would have been more appropriate to a private discussion (because it is otherwise liable to be misunderstood).
I think that that pretty much exonerates me from any liability for these musings.
I explained that only yesterday I had binge-watched several interviews with him over an eight-year period, and - while I assuredly have no criticism of the essence of what he said - that I noticed a certain "Twilight Zone"-like similarity of all the interviews. If that doesn't "strike a chord" with you, and if you don't have a deeper explanation for it, then please ignore it.
There is no hidden resentment here, and no secret agenda on my part.
Regards,
I suspected something like that. But I never open links.
Regards,
It certainly isn’t a common usage, but neither was “bigly”. Had never heard that one before Pres. Trump used it.
Was not trying to "take away" anything from Mamet or diminish him. Just pointing out to a certain fellow FReeper that for someone who has had countless interactions with people of that ilk ("good" Germans), it is a rather pedestrian observation, so does not especially impress me.
How many times do I have to explain that all of my comments should be preceded - in thought - by a "for what it's worth?"
Not holding myself up as a Gold Standard - just explaining why I'm not esp. impressed by that particular observation.
Never claimed that my "stories" were of better literary quality than Mamet's.
The only "criticism" - if that's the proper word for it - of Mamet I have is the observation that, in three interviews with three very different interviewers over an 8-year period, he essentially "rehashed" the same old stories, anecdotes, aphorisms, and jokes. I got the SUBJECTIVE impression that that was not his conscious intention. So I posited that he might be trapped in some sort of weird mental loop. I invited anyone with a differing opinion or a better explanation to disabuse me of that impression.
That "humble" and "circumspect" enough for you?
Regards,
I regret not reading your subsequent posts before scolding you. Be well and be blessed, alexander_busek!
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