David Mamet, author and playwright, writing in the Aug. 10 edition of National Review (“The Nazis Got Your Mom”) succinctly captures in a short paragraph the absolute absurdity of two pieces of politicized boilerplate of our farcical times: Systemic Racism and Social Justice. They are part of a repetitive political jihad that fails to learn from past experience.
During the California lockdown, Mamet is cruising the websites of one of his favorite book stores and notices the plethora of anti-Trump offerings along with the business’s promise to fight the scourge of Systemic Racism. He continues as follows:
“Now, I don’t know what Systemic Racism is, but neither does anyone else. Like Social Justice, any communicable meaning is destroyed by the adjective. Both terms are indictments of Human Evil; its perpetrators are easily identifiable: They are those who request a definition.”
So we have the prefect weapons for this generation of revolutionary busybodies to control our minds and behavior. This will end at the same place where earlier political crusades landed: misery. Why? He writes:
“… the greatest lesson of History is that we never learn from History. And that no great crime was ever committed save in the name of Progress, or its stablemates Historical Necessity and Redress of Past Wrongs.”
The crushing thing about this latest round of lunacy is that it has captured the imagination of almost the entirety of one of our two institutional parties, the Democratic Party. The idiocy is free to flow through the “D” side of the ballot and our branches of government at all levels.
The madness has left the asylum and is poised to enter policy in a big way. Some people see it … like Mamet.
RogerG