One writes because one loves writing. But all this is a little disingenuous, for Stoppard is actually much more politically acute than Pinter and Miller, and he is certainly more morally mature and intelligent. All these works, and many others, reveal a deep commitment to morality and an intellectually, as well as theatrically, coherent rejection of that relativism which logical positivism and sterile linguistic philosophy have spawned. Above all there is a confident exposure of the dehumanizing aspects of Marxism and its relativistic anti-ethics. It enjoins the universal precepts of human liberty and a commitment to a minimalist equality.
Correct values are simple and immediate in their appeal.
I often ask my son what he thinks. They are mainly positivists, empiricists, Benthamites, behaviourists, even lapsed Kantians, and they all make fantastic leaps of the imagination along with their gymnastic flights of physical fancy. Their political wing, the Radical Liberals, have just won an election but the positivists' victory is spoiled by the murder of their most prominent member, McFee. Even worse, McFee had already defected before his death, having himself witnessed a murder on TV George cannot handle the slickness of the positivists and never makes the final lecture that would restore intellectual respectability to his absolutist beliefs or secure them in a plausible notion of God. Both seem out of touch with modernity.