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from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Mamet Is a Defiant Scribe in the Age of Conformity<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The playwright won\u2019t play along with woke signaling, talismanic masking or deference to petty tyrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Barton Swaim<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ILLUSTRATION:\u00a0KEN FALLIN<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back in the 1980s and \u201990s, innumerable films, TV documentaries and history textbooks instructed us that the 1950s were years of conformity and conventionalism: \u201cThe Donna Reed Show,\u201d McCarthyism, \u201cThe Organization Man,\u201d TV dinners. In fact, the \u201950s were a time of extraordinary artistic creativity, boundless technological innovation, original thinking in politics, intellectual diversity in journalism and higher education, new energy in religion, and enormous progress in race relations. What the \u201980s and \u201990s mistook for conformity was a naturally evolved cultural solidarity\u2014something nearly everybody, on the left and the right, longs for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An informed observer of present-day America might reasonably conclude that our own decade\u2014at least among the educated and advantaged classes\u2014is far more imbued with the spirit of conformism than the \u201950s were. Corporate managers and military leaders parrot nostrums about diversity, inclusion and sustainability that few of them believe. Museums and orchestras studiously avoid programming that might offend ideologues. Reporters and producers in the mainstream press seize on stories\u2014or ignore them\u2014solely because that\u2019s what everybody else in the press is doing. Large majorities in wealthy cities dutifully comply with public-health restrictions they know to be largely ineffective, mainly because refusing to do so would invite the ire of friends and neighbors complying with those restrictions for the same reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe America\u2019s deciders and describers (to use Nicholas Eberstadt\u2019s phrase) aren\u2019t the independent-minded lot they think themselves to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at WSJ<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Wall Street Journal David Mamet Is a Defiant Scribe in the Age of Conformity The playwright won\u2019t play along with woke signaling, talismanic masking or deference to petty tyrants. By\u00a0Barton Swaim Back in the 1980s and \u201990s, innumerable films, TV documentaries and history textbooks instructed us that the 1950s were years of conformity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}