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http://www.slate.com/id/2296730/pagenum/all/#p2 Lunch With David Mamet
The dramatist says he's "crazy" about Sarah Palin.
By John GapperPosted Saturday, June 11, 2011, at 7:54 AM ET Confrontation is often present in Mamet's work, in which characters with opposing views argue with often unbearable intensity, trying to settle their differences by pounding each other's personalities. He thrives on provoking his audience and has now done so in real life by becoming a conservative and writing a book, The Secret Knowledge, that grinds into dust his erstwhile liberalism. Mamet's Damascene conversion from one side of the bitterly divided American political culture to the other, which he first announced in a 2008 article for the Village Voice headlined "Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal," shocked his fellow writers and artists.
"I saw things that horrified me in my own behavior, positions I'd taken that were foolish and absurd," he declares defiantly. I ask for an example. "Voting for big government. It has ruined our country as it ruined yours. As Churchill said, 'We fought the war and now our country is giving away everything we fought and died for.' California is broke, this country is broke, yet we keep on voting for it."
The dramatist says he's "crazy" about Sarah Palin.
By John GapperPosted Saturday, June 11, 2011, at 7:54 AM ET Confrontation is often present in Mamet's work, in which characters with opposing views argue with often unbearable intensity, trying to settle their differences by pounding each other's personalities. He thrives on provoking his audience and has now done so in real life by becoming a conservative and writing a book, The Secret Knowledge, that grinds into dust his erstwhile liberalism. Mamet's Damascene conversion from one side of the bitterly divided American political culture to the other, which he first announced in a 2008 article for the Village Voice headlined "Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal," shocked his fellow writers and artists.
"I saw things that horrified me in my own behavior, positions I'd taken that were foolish and absurd," he declares defiantly. I ask for an example. "Voting for big government. It has ruined our country as it ruined yours. As Churchill said, 'We fought the war and now our country is giving away everything we fought and died for.' California is broke, this country is broke, yet we keep on voting for it."