David Mamet With Brain Fully Engaged Discovers He Is A Free-Market Liberal
David Mamet in an article in The Village Voice “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal” lays out how he understands that people in a free society can solve their problems better with limited government intervention. Mamet is probably one of the most prominent American Play writers in the last 20 years. Here is the link to the piece:
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0811,374064,374064,1.html
In the article he calls Thomas Sowell our greatest contemporary philosopher. After looking and writing about the drama of life for the last 30 years Mamet gets it. He understands that we need freedom to plan and determine our own lives. Government needs to have a limited and defined role in the process of ordering everyday life.
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March 12th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Great quote by Thomas Sowell (who Mamet admires greatly):
“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago, and a racist today.”