David Mamet: The Secret Knowledge

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“Multiculturalism” and “diversity”—now insisted upon as a basic tenet of education, is, of course, directed at Whites. What Black or Hispanic enclave or group insists upon the presence of Whites? Why should they? Why, then, is the White population devoted to this show-and-tell? It is the essential counterweight to affirmative action—the postmodern version of busing. The enormity of these programs is less that they, fatuously, endorse the exposure of whites to People of Color, but that they operationally support the inverse, the idea that these People of Color benefit from White condescension. As such, “diversity” is the stalking horse of affirmative action—it is a happy proclamation of Black inferiority.

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As Thomas Sowell said, one might complain that this or that activity “ruins his neighborhood”; but that one does not own his neighborhood—he merely owns his house . The attempt to have governmental bodies enforce zoning (and environmental) rules for the benefit of incumbents is a misuse of the power of the State.

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“The sense of community perceived in Cuba was not only nurtured by the political designs and ideology of the system, but had its subterranean reservoirs and supports in the stereotype of the joyful, life affirming attitude, attributed to the musically gifted song-and-dance loving natives, their natural and politically engendered vitality.” Susan Sontag wrote, “The Cubans know a lot about spontaneity, gaiety, sensuality, and freaking out. They are not linear, desiccated creatures of print culture.’ ” (Paul Hollander, Political Pilgrims , quoting Susan Sontag’s Some Thoughts )

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In his book Political Pilgrims , Paul Hollander quotes Simone de Beauvoir on her visit in the 1950s, to China: “. . . not a model prison; it was simply the only one in the city area . . . what a difference between this and the American system. (Here) they have a field for sports at their disposal, a big courtyard with a theatre where a movie is shown or a play presented every week. The day I was there they were rehearsing a play of their own. There is also a reading room stocked with books and periodicals where they can sit and relax.” Quoted from de Beauvoir, The Long March .

Please note “the day I was there . . .” the coincidence between de Beauvoir’s visit, and the “happenstance” of the staging of the play. Was this woman a complete fool, or just criminally deluded? And, finally, to those who suffered under Mao, and to those on the Left inspired to deny their sufferings, by her recitation, what is the difference?

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The Obama administration (on April 6, 2010) announced a new directive regarding our Nuclear Arms—that they will never be employed against a Non Nuclear Power. Such a power, now, is free to use biological warfare, germ warfare, poison gas, and so on, free from worry about response from our superior technology. Whom, in the name of God, does this directive benefit save our enemies?

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(Whittaker Chambers, Witness, 1952)

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President Obama, in a radio interview at a ballpark, was asked if he, as a Chicagoan, preferred the Sox or the Cubs. He claimed he was a Sox fan, twice mispronounced the name of Comiskey Park, twice referred to the umpire as “the judge,” and, asked for his favorite White Sox, past or present, could not come up with one name. Sigh.

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Note that, to a parent, most fatuous of pronouncements, that of the childless upon child rearing, which begins, “my niece . . . ”

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Chapter 1 - THE POLITICAL IMPULSE

Chapter 2 - THE AMERICAN REALITY

Chapter 3 - CULTURE, SCHOOL SHOOTINGS, THE AUDIENCE, AND THE ELEVATOR

Chapter 4 - ALCATRAZ

Chapter 5 - LOST HORIZON

Chapter 6 - THE MUSIC MAN

Chapter 7 - CHOICE

Chapter 8 - THE RED SEA

Chapter 9 - CHICAGO

Chapter 10 - MILTON FRIEDMAN EXPLAINED

Chapter 11 - WHAT IS “DIVERSITY”?

Chapter 12 - THE MONTY HALL PROBLEM AND THE CONTRACTOR

Chapter 13 - MAXWELL STREET

Chapter 14 - R100

Chapter 15 - THE INTELLIGENT PERSON’S GUIDE TO SOCIALISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM

Chapter 16 - THE VICTIM

Chapter 17 - PURITANS

Chapter 18 - THE NOBLE SAVAGE

Chapter 19 - ADVENTURE SLUMMING

Chapter 20 - CABINET SPIRITUALISM AND THE CAR CZAR

Chapter 21 - RUMPELSTILTSKIN

Chapter 22 - MY FATHER, AL SHARPTON, AND THE DESIGNATED CRIMINAL

Chapter 23 - GREED

Chapter 24 - ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 25 - OAKTON MANOR AND CAMP KAWAGA

Chapter 26 - FEMINISM

Chapter 27 - THE ASHKENAZIS

Chapter 28 - SOME PERSONAL HISTORY

Chapter 29 - THE FAMILY

Chapter 30 - NATURALLY EVOLVED INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 31 - BREATHARIAN

Chapter 32 - THE STREET SWEEPER AND THE SURGEON, OR MARXISM EXAMINED

Chapter 33 - SELF-EVIDENT TRUTH

Chapter 34 - HOPE AND CHANGE

Chapter 35 - THE SMALL REFRIGERATOR

Chapter 36 - BUMPER STICKERS

Chapter 37 - LATE REVELATIONS

Chapter 38 - WHO DOES ONE THINK HE IS?

Chapter 39 - THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE

Acknowledgements

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX