Comments on: Trees falling silently http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Al http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/comment-page-1/#comment-21286 Al Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:33:48 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/#comment-21286 It does seem that the liberal establishment is trying to make the Mamet metamorphosis disappear by ignoring it. It's the same childish behavior they display when ignoring their own individual responsibility. I come to the conclusion that is why libs hate conservatives in general and Bush specifically. Conservatives insist on personal responsibility. The adult attitude. The libs are singing "I won't grow up!" You could construe liberals' oversensitivity to alleged racial slurs as simply play ground name calling. They have given mere words, and those who use them, the power to "hurt", instead of taking the responsibility to be strong in oneself, control one's own emotions, and deny that power to hurt with mere words. The majority of libs live in a childish world. The leaders of that world are the dangerous ones. Al It does seem that the liberal establishment is trying to make the Mamet metamorphosis disappear by ignoring it. It’s the same childish behavior they display when ignoring their own individual responsibility. I come to the conclusion that is why libs hate conservatives in general and Bush specifically. Conservatives insist on personal responsibility. The adult attitude. The libs are singing “I won’t grow up!”
You could construe liberals’ oversensitivity to alleged racial slurs as simply play ground name calling. They have given mere words, and those who use them, the power to “hurt”, instead of taking the responsibility to be strong in oneself, control one’s own emotions, and deny that power to hurt with mere words. The majority of libs live in a childish world. The leaders of that world are the dangerous ones.
Al

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/comment-page-1/#comment-21253 Ymarsakar Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:36:51 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/#comment-21253 <B>who put greater premium on doing than thinking</b> In today's war of insurgencies and the strategic corporal, fighters must think as well as do. Their thinking is just not art, unless you consider war an art. who put greater premium on doing than thinking

In today’s war of insurgencies and the strategic corporal, fighters must think as well as do.

Their thinking is just not art, unless you consider war an art.

]]> By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/comment-page-1/#comment-21252 Ymarsakar Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:35:45 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/#comment-21252 Wasn't Mamet's father mentioned in the history books on art and music? Wasn’t Mamet’s father mentioned in the history books on art and music?

]]> By: Zhombre http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/comment-page-1/#comment-21241 Zhombre Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:57:21 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/#comment-21241 Rent a copy of a Mamet movie "Spartan." My own theory of Mamet is that he is an intellectual, a man of letters, of words and ideas, and a keen observer, who is fascinated and somewhat in awe of men of action, who put greater premium on doing than thinking, on discipline and self sacrifice for the mission and not on smug self satisfaction. Rent a copy of a Mamet movie “Spartan.” My own theory of Mamet is that he is an intellectual, a man of letters, of words and ideas, and a keen observer, who is fascinated and somewhat in awe of men of action, who put greater premium on doing than thinking, on discipline and self sacrifice for the mission and not on smug self satisfaction.

]]> By: 11B40 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/comment-page-1/#comment-21236 11B40 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:29:53 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/03/20/trees-falling-silently/#comment-21236 Greetings: A couple of years back, I took note, with more than some surprise, of David Mamet's involvement with a CBS dramatic series entitled "The Unit." As an ex-infantryman, I was surprised to find that the episodes were both balanced and believable as they followed the admittedly fictional adventures of a team of Special Forces operators on missions in various parts of our conflicted world. So, now I know. Greetings:

A couple of years back, I took note, with more than some surprise, of David Mamet’s involvement with a CBS dramatic series entitled “The Unit.” As an ex-infantryman, I was surprised to find that the episodes were both balanced and believable as they followed the admittedly fictional adventures of a team of Special Forces operators on missions in various parts of our conflicted world.

So, now I know.

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