Himno de retirada

More and more voices are raised against the insatiable tyranny of political correctness. David Mamet, one of the most important authors of recent decades in the United States, expresses in these pages his weariness with the slippery slope of cancellation culture and with the suffocating atmosphere of neopuritanism. In Anthem of Retreat, the playwright critiques, mocks, and dissects the virus of gender ideology, Racial Theory, and other ideas that pose an existential threat to the West. In this collection of essays, Mamet proclaims a dirge for the freethinker at a time when the universities, the media, and politics have become infested with this tight-lipped, uncompromising moralism. These pages examine the descent of the United States into the hells of barbarism in recent years, sponsored by the censorship of freedom of expression in order to avoid offending minority groups. Mamet warns that the proliferation of moralizing and indoctrinating literature is creating a dogmatic mentality among the new generations that prevents them from assuming the disruptive, provocative, conflictive and uncomfortable character that has characterized cultural production under Western civilization. The culture of our time has enshrined the idea that people's morality is determined by their ethnic, sexual or socioeconomic condition, rather than by their ethical choices. For this reason, this ironic, melancholic and scathing appeal to confront cultural bullying is a breath of freedom at a time when emotivism is destroying the possibility of rational debate.