Tag Archives: David Mamet

the diary of anne mamet

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave

David Manet’s Anne Frank is another version about present engagement seeking to encounter the past. The point is still a bitterness of history and to tug and cajole the forgotten into the present in a struggle against selective memory and … Continue reading →

your money or your life: hoarding gold with the rat men

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Dave

Currency Wars.It’s not called the gloomy science for nothing. A new book by economist James Rickards is scary stuff. Almost science fiction. It does lend oneself to Weimar like visions of the collapse of fiat currency and receiving wages on … Continue reading →

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99% percent proof: illusion of the target

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

The underclass is always more vital than the higher strata, unburdend by the baggage of bourgeois liberal morality, preachings of violence which justifies borrowing, exploiting, and finally cannibalizing all transgressive life into commodity kitsch and diluted into pablum. The American … Continue reading →

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little criminals: occupy modify commodify

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Dave

The ingenious part of our system, our “culture” is its ability to absorb and renew the top twenty percent of the population. These newbies, if you could call them, what Pierre Vallieres might term the new “white niggers of America” … Continue reading →

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More Than A Rite of Passage

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Dave

Anne Frank wrote in her diary: “It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at … Continue reading →