在过去的30年里，戴维·马梅特一直是戏剧和电影界颇具争议和决定性的力量，一路倡导着最受珍视的自由主义价值观。在我们这个时代的一些伟大的电影和戏剧中，他的角色探索了商业世界的伦理，体现了被压迫者的斗争，并面临着资本主义制度的缺陷。但近年来，马梅特改变了主意。他意识到，他所依赖的所谓主流媒体存在无可救药的偏见，宣扬虚伪且存在严重缺陷的世界观。2008年，他为《乡村之声》写了一篇极具争议的专栏文章《为什么我不再是一个‘脑死亡的自由主义者’》，在这篇文章中，他有条不紊地去除了自由主义信仰。现在，他走得更深了，运用他标志性的智力力量和活力来处理我们这个时代的所有关键政治和文化问题，从宗教到政治正确性再到全球变暖。马梅特在艺术和政治上都毫不留情。作为一个觉醒的前自由主义者，他将赢得对美国当前方向感到愤怒的其他人的全新听众。
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (Audiobook)
For the past 30 years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. In some of the great movies and plays of our time, his characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system. But in recent years Mamet has had a change of heart. He realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed worldview. In 2008 he wrote a hugely controversial op-ed for the Village Voice, “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal,'” in which he methodically eviscerated liberal beliefs. Now he goes much deeper, employing his trademark intellectual force and vigor to take on all the key political and cultural issues of our times, from religion to political correctness to global warming. Mamet pulls no punches in his art or in his politics. And as a former liberal who woke up, he will win over an entirely new audience of others who have grown irate over America’s current direction.
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