David Mamet writes about becoming a conservative, with surprisingly little attention paid to how his place in the world — as opposed to his thinking — may have changed over the years. He actually makes the argument that his thinking hasn’t changed at all, he’s just stopped fooling himself that his views were compatible with liberalism… Stopped conning himself if you will. He further asserts that plays are made better if they lack a director; just like how societies are made better without government! This is something only a writer could say. I asked a theater person friend what happens if you remove a director from a play, and he said, “you are left with a passel of self-absorbed actors run amok.” Not a bad description of what happens without a government in place, as well.
It’s all rather twisted. I’m looking forward to the third act, when it turns out that Bush was in on it all along and that Rebecca Pidgeon just painted all of the red states to look like lead.