How artistically, timelessly effective would be the cave scene in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society if the same few Welton Academy boys gathered obediently distanced, fearfully masked upon the recited words "to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life"...
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
My countrymen living "sturdily and Spartan-like", putting "to rout all that was not life" during this perverted era of social fear and political oppression? Hardly! We're a nation of goddamn kittens-in-trees pathetically meowing, embarrassingly mewling till governmentally, paternalistically rescued.
Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
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