о безмозглых либералах

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Дэйвид Мамет (драматург и режиссер) написал любопытную статью, и назвал ее "Почему я перестал быть безмозглым либералом".

"Либерал" здесь следует понимать, как в Америке, а не как в России.

I'd observed that lust, greed, envy, sloth, and their pals are giving the world a good run for its money, but that nonetheless, people in general seem to get from day to day; and that we in the United States get from day to day under rather wonderful and privileged circumstances—that we are not and never have been the villains that some of the world and some of our citizens make us out to be, but that we are a confection of normal (greedy, lustful, duplicitous, corrupt, inspired—in short, human) individuals living under a spectacularly effective compact called the Constitution, and lucky to get it.

Страшный человек просто-таки.

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[dyak.livejournal.com]

Он обнаружил, что все политики (как и люди вообще) не без греха, и впал в Constitution-worshiping; для второкурсника простительно, для шестидесятилетнего интеллектуала удивительно.

I recognized that I held those two views of America (politics, government, corporations, the military). One was of a state where everything was magically wrong and must be immediately corrected at any cost; and the other—the world in which I actually functioned day to day—was made up of people, most of whom were reasonably trying to maximize their comfort by getting along with each other (in the workplace, the marketplace, the jury room, on the freeway, even at the school-board meeting).

And I realized that the time had come for me to avow my participation in that America in which I chose to live, and that that country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace.

Очень правильные слова, смысл которых Мамет со временем осознает.