We will not see the likes of Mailer again. What a smart, profoundly articulate man. And conveyed the truth so directly.

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Reagan represented the end of any intelligent political discourse in the USA - he was an actor who represented the will of the masses in the US to pretend their way to greatness. Beating up on tiny countries was characterised as a way of "healing" America - at the expense of those little countries, without any moral reckoning or acknowledgement of the unnecessary injustice of the Vietnam. It was America who needed healing, not the countries which had been bombed and destroyed because they refused to be beaten by the enormous military power of the USA. Little has changed since - apparently the little wars were insufficient to "heal", hence Iraq, and all the others since. The kind of dialogue and self-reflection in the USA's public arena in the 60's and 70's are but a sad memory.

I'm more pissed than Norman, well, he's dead so of course I'm more pissed. I still love him.

Mr. Mailer was one of the largest and greatest minds ever to manifest in human form on this planet. While it is indeed a shame that we cannot read his descriptions of the next world until we ourselves cross into it, I believe we can rest assured that he is there, he did make it and he has been writing about it. In the meantime we have THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON.

It is almost impossible to believe Mr Mailor is dead, his words are so alive when he speaks them. Shame he would never get to write his greatest SA ever; 'My first days of being in the Afterlife'. Mr Mailer would probably be the only writer who could describe the experiences of being on the 'other side of the Grave'.

The USSR never wanted to destroy America, never wanted to invade Western Europe - they ended up being the scapegoat for the post-WWII era because they decided that having paid the biggest price for the war they should now transform the society into a more equal one. This was too big a challenge to the capitalist powers. Also, the false conclusion that war could be profitable for a whole nation, when wars are always costly - the price must be paid sometime - meant that it was decided to keep on fighting, regardless of whether the other side wanted to or not.

Mailer was a man's man. Did you know, he went toe-to-toe with Marshall McLuhan. McLuhan gracefully wiped the floor with him. Mailer hung in there for the beating, did it with style and gratitude. Few, very few have gone the rounds with McLuhan. I'd like to think McLuhan respected him for it. For that reason, reason enough, I put Mailer on The Mantel of Brave and Courageous. The Summer Way with Norman Mailer - Marshall McLuhan 1968 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/htqifdGlxrrQmZc.html The Mantel of Brave and Courageous by Patrick McCormack (Pending authorship and publication, stay tuned.) "Life is too short to not be cool." - Grandpa "Life is too long if too hot." - Grandson "Careful as we will, careful as we go." - Grandpa My Star - Ian Brown kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5ZhbMKTzJrZh5s.html

pigs were BEATING on those kids

Oh dear, what a disappointment, [Mailer's pro war sentiments] to his normally sane motives ! His flippant, poorly reasoned comment that we need 'small, controlled wars' [NOW we have them!] , almost casually relegating them [suggestively] to gladiatorial 'entertainment'. A brilliant man...his life a contradiction punctuated and blemished by, occasional lapses of insanity.