This is an excellent book. Highly recommend.
As a lad becoming politically aware in the 80’s, I often needed to defend my Ronald Reagan Conservatism to my Liberal chums. I would boil my position down to a single phrase — Liberalism is the triumph of emotion over reason. In “The Secret Knowledge”, David Mamet has come to the exact same conclusion, only much later in life, and with a bit more eloquence.
This book feels like a treatise written, presciently, to help one understand the tortured logic and childish ideals of the Occupy Wall Street infants, who, as Mamet descibes a similar generation of perpetual dependents, “think that crying harder makes the breast appear.”
The book is a bit disjointed, mainly because it reads like a collection of essays rather than a carefully planned journey, but nevertheless, his well researched (he quotes heavily from my economic hero Thomas Sowell) and exquisite prose on the folly that is Liberalism raises my hopes in these trying times.
Thanks for the heads up. I just downloaded it to my Kindle.