A fascinating read in the Village Voice from David Mamet on his journey from being a brain-dead liberal to something else. From the article, I'm not sure what. Excerpt:
And, I wondered, how could I have spent decades thinking that I thought everything was always wrong at the same time that I thought I thought that people were basically good at heart? Which was it? I began to question what I actually thought and found that I do not think that people are basically good at heart; indeed, that view of human nature has both prompted and informed my writing for the last 40 years. I think that people, in circumstances of stress, can behave like swine, and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject, but the only subject, of drama.
Entertaining and occasionally to the point, although which one's I'm not sure, it is worth a read.
