Mamet Is A Defiant Scribe In Any Age Of Conformity

Sweet home Chicago’s artist extraordinaire, David Mamet, is one of the few Windy City intelligentsia who has shown us how to hate the hypocrisy of conservative baby boomers & today’s woke progressives alike over his 74 years.

The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and screenwriter has long been noted for “his desperate working-class characters and for his distinctive, colloquial & frequently profane dialogue” that was kinda shocking during the 1980s when he really became famous. Recently, the WSJ wrote how “Mamet is [still] a defiant scribe in the Age of Conformity”, i.e., a man who “won’t play along with woke signaling, talismanic masking or deference to petty tyrants. [BTW: The 80s were also arguably “conformist-driven,” only leaning more conservative than liberal.] I still remember reviewing Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” with a North Shore movie review dominated by wealthy, self-made Jews, how it showed parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are about to do some unethical things to get ahead in the game, including lying, ass-kissing, bribery, Capone-style gangster intimidation & even burglary to sell real estate to targeted buyers. Mamet would know, having once been one of them, as were many in the movie group I was a part of. Hell, entrepreneurs and/or professionals all, we readily “divined” the hypocrisy of our post-Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement society.

Today, however, as the WSJ suggests, Mr. Mamet is the rare Chicago native still thriving in our super self-righteous, moralizing art world who still has the gall to say in fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama’s face that “Trump was a great president.”

David Mamet