David Mamet Quote
My generation has a giddy delight in dissolution. [...] To inspire theunsophisticated young to demand change is an easy and a cheap trick— it was the tactic of the Communist Internationale in the thirties, another movement.[...] We were self-taught in the sixties to award ourselves merit for membership in a superior group–irrespective of ourgroup’s accomplishments. We continue to do so, irrespective of accomplishments, individual or communal, having told each other we were special. We learned that all one need do is refrain from trustinganybody over thirty; that all people are alike, and to judge their behavior was judgmental; that property is theft. As we did not investigate these assertions or their implications, we could not actupon them and felt no need to do so. For we were the culmination of history, superior to all those misguided who had come before, which is to say all humanity. Though we had never met a payroll, fought for an education, obsessed about the rent, raised a child, carried a weapon for our country, or searched for work. Though we had never been in sufficient distress to call upon God, we indicted those who had. And continue to do so.
My generation has a giddy delight in dissolution. [...] To inspire theunsophisticated young to demand change is an easy and a cheap trick— it was the tactic of the Communist Internationale in the thirties, another movement.[...] We were self-taught in the sixties to award ourselves merit for membership in a superior group–irrespective of ourgroup’s accomplishments. We continue to do so, irrespective of accomplishments, individual or communal, having told each other we were special. We learned that all one need do is refrain from trustinganybody over thirty; that all people are alike, and to judge their behavior was judgmental; that property is theft. As we did not investigate these assertions or their implications, we could not actupon them and felt no need to do so. For we were the culmination of history, superior to all those misguided who had come before, which is to say all humanity. Though we had never met a payroll, fought for an education, obsessed about the rent, raised a child, carried a weapon for our country, or searched for work. Though we had never been in sufficient distress to call upon God, we indicted those who had. And continue to do so.