Summary of David Mamet's Recessional

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Sample Book Insights:

#1 The young man can’t mature without an absolute conviction of the universality of the law of cause and effect. When there is an intervening good fairy, the boy and the young man will exploit it.

#2 The only control over human behavior is force or the threat of force, or the desire to avoid its power. If the child does not observe reverence, he will not learn the rules of cause and effect.

#3 The Women’s March was a celebration of the lack of self-direction in American youth. The Left is attractive to young people because it asserts that they don’t need to confront the monster of maturity; that the Left will simply pass laws forcing them to bell themselves.