“We Americans today are captivated by the still living survival of that primeval nomad life. Or say, better, perhaps, by our fantasy of such.
“In this nomad fantasy the Left sees an affinity with Nature in an unspoiled wilderness; the Right, freedom and self-reliance within an ordered and spiritual social structure. These two poetic views are and always have been in conflict, in American politics and the American breast. [The two] make one whole myth: the Left and the Right combined yet opposed, two sides of the coin held in perpetual stasis.”
-David Mamet
