[The_Reader_David]

Wow. Someone got to him.

Yes, his rabbi.

I've read a few of the other interviews with Mamet in connection with his book, and one when the Village Voice piece he wrote (which The Voice retitled "Why I am no longer a brain-dead liberal" or something like that). On the other hand, the tragic sense of life which came through in his plays was always conservative: the left thinks man is perfectible, that if we just put the correct programs in place everyone will be happy forever. The conservative, or anyone with a tragic sense of life, knows this to be rubbish.

[Tex-Con-Man]

A long and fantastic read.

Explains the transformation from the herd mentality in Hollywood to independent thinker.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-03-11/news/why-i-am-no-longer-a-brain-dead-liberal/full

[dennisw]

On the other hand, the tragic sense of life which came through in his plays was always conservative:>>>>>>>

Most of his material was conservative. He wrote the screenplay for the movie “The Edge” which is a conservative movie where the hero is a billionaire — “Never feel sorry for a man who owns a jet airplane”

[lentulusgracchus]

On the other hand, the tragic sense of life which came through in his plays was always conservative: the left thinks man is perfectible.....

Bingo. You just nuked the entire Left.

[Yardstick]

On the other hand, the tragic sense of life which came through in his plays was always conservative: the left thinks man is perfectible, that if we just put the correct programs in place everyone will be happy forever. The conservative, or anyone with a tragic sense of life, knows this to be rubbish.

Yep, and the irony is that once you see life in the tragic sense and that people aren't perfectible, you can be happy and truly love people. Liberals don't get this, of course, because they are deaf to irony.