“I Don’t Know If the United States Will Survive In a Form Recognizable To My Generation.”

“I don’t know if the United States will survive in a recognizable form for my generation,” laments the great Pulitzer prize winning American playwright and author David Mamet, the screenwriter of The Untouchables and other film classics, who has written an essay worth memorizing, titled: “This is a time of terrifying change.”

FUTILITY

I don’t know if the United States will survive in a form recognizable to my generation.

By: David Mamet, National Review, September 2026,

Age may, and often does, weaken obstinacy, by the revelation, at seventy-odd years, that most human things do not matter.
— Bolitho

In Morgan Robertson’s 1898 novel, Futility, a superliner on her maiden transatlantic voyage strikes an iceberg and sinks, with all but 13 on board drowned. His