Roger,

I’ve googled up the life and work of people like Pinter and Redgrave before. I realize that perhaps at least peripherally you have had exposure to the people who are writers and artists. Why do these people come to hate capitalism and America so much? It just seems more to me that these people need something hate and to resent, and we’ve become the scapegoats. And they are rarely honest about their lives, so we become spectators to their drama but they offer us no insight into when, how, and why they became Marxists.

I used to be an aspiring academic Marxist many years ago. And I know why I was drawn into the intellectual currents of it. I know when and how it happened and with anyone who would bother to ask me I could give a detailed and honest account for what was going on within my mind and heart. And I can even explain why, when, and how I came to make the journey back in the opposite direction from Marxism.

But people like Pinter and Redgrave leave us no honest accounting for who they are and why they are what they are. I realize these are private matters with many people, but public hate is no longer a private matter. BTW, for the record, with me hate and scapegoating were not factors in my journey. These people shove their vitriol and burning passions right in our faces. They lob their bombs at us, and then move on to another situation and context, whereby they lob more grenades at Western Civilization. They just fling destruction and vitriol at people, and display no hints at any introspection about themselves to account for it all.