Quote of the Day.
And read the whole thing.
By Moe Lane Posted in Liberals | Media — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Quite good:
For the Constitution, rather than suggesting that all behave in a godlike manner, recognizes that, to the contrary, people are swine and will take any opportunity to subvert any agreement in order to pursue what they consider to be their proper interests.
To that end, the Constitution separates the power of the state into those three branches which are for most of us (I include myself) the only thing we remember from 12 years of schooling.
The Constitution, written by men with some experience of actual government, assumes that the chief executive will work to be king, the Parliament will scheme to sell off the silverware, and the judiciary will consider itself Olympian and do everything it can to much improve (destroy) the work of the other two branches. So the Constitution pits them against each other, in the attempt not to achieve stasis, but rather to allow for the constant corrections necessary to prevent one branch from getting too much power for too long.
Rather brilliant. For, in the abstract, we may envision an Olympian perfection of perfect beings in Washington doing the business of their employers, the people, but any of us who has ever been at a zoning meeting with our property at stake is aware of the urge to cut through all the pernicious [expletive deleted - ed.] and go straight to firearms.
- David Mamet, in the Village Voice ("Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'").
Yes, we're all quite startled here, too. The conversion is not yet complete - elsewhere in this essay he compared GWB to JFK, in order to show that JFK was bad, too - but these things rarely happen all at once. Still, check it out, and imagine the screams of petulant rage at the profanation of the Village Voice's purity of essence with this essay...
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Yes, there's going to be a shockwave in New York City this day!
I am surprised more people don't come to similar conclusions about realizing that the government is corrupt when, as Mamet puts it, it turns out that "people are swine". And by that I mean there are people that are swine that get into politics and help make the entire thing a pig sty. Government isn't a separate entity; it composed of people.
Remedy: Remove the swine from government. Keep the swine not in government out of government. Aw done.
Oh and by the way.
Bye Bye Spitzer, you driver's license-cheapening hypocritical scumbag. See ya, wouldn't want to be ya.
And look! There's Hillary, floating down the Hudson River on a wave of rancid Spitzer. Now if only Barak would wade in...
Some of the comments are priceless as well. Heads are exploding all over Manhattan today!
I love reading about the process liberals go through that brings them to the realization that maybe they need to rethink their views. Reading about that process in the words of such a talented writer makes it even better.
I suppose David Mamet should prepare to become persona-non-grata as all traces of his existence are wiped clean, ala the Soviet Union.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
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Can't imagine why. :)
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
I've never understood the attitude that people are basically bad so we need to take the most charismatic of these people and give them the levers of power.
For The Children.
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. --Voltaire