{"id":679,"date":"2009-03-08T23:05:51","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T03:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2009-03-09T22:57:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T02:57:42","slug":"video-yes-we-do-need-another-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/video-yes-we-do-need-another-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"(( Video )) — Yes, We Do Indeed Need Another HERO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is NOT going to be one of those torrid, long, rant-filled blog posts that often come about when we see and hear about things that flat out deserve some “WTF wisdom”.<\/p>\n

No, dear reader, there’s enough comical grade-school romper room antics to go around these days that we’ll save it for another time.<\/p>\n

Some tell us, “Well, shit, it’s not like it’s so easy for me to act like an adult when there’s so many people across the board — politicians, bankers, coaches, marketers, and wanna-be gurus — acting like children.”<\/p>\n

While we half smile and shake our heads at hearing such a juvenile excuse and lemming mentality, we also splash our Dutch Bros coffee on the table for the tainted truth it holds:<\/p>\n

That it’s gotten more and more COOL to fall in step with normalcy, and consistently be singing off the same page<\/em><\/strong>. That page, more so than ever, is being written by a more pronounced socialist <\/em>mindset (and, yes, government<\/span> too — it’s ballooning right in front of your eyes. All you have to do is have genuine, heart-level conversations with people, and read MULTIPLE news sources to KNOW this).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Er, wait a second (screeeeeeeeeeeetch)!<\/p>\n

Stop the presses! We promised no soap boxes this time.<\/p>\n

Okay, so, check this out (it’ll be a brief introduction to a video clip):<\/p>\n

As society applauds more and more conformity, who’s going to speak up for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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====== Continued<\/em><\/strong><\/span> =======<\/p>\n

It’s harder and harder to find that crusader, that knight, that maverick, that iconoclast who cajoles, inspires, and guides you to broaden your horizons and follow your dreams.<\/p>\n

Or is it?<\/p>\n

Maybe there’s that brilliant somebody — that somebody who motivated you to make a stand, to take a leap, and speak up for your beliefs — right in your backyard.<\/p>\n

Could be a loved one, a teacher, a community leader, a distant friend.<\/p>\n

One thing’s for sure, though… the world could use more Professor Keatings.<\/p>\n

Yes, Tina Turner, we don’t care what you think… the world does<\/em> need another HERO. So, bug off!<\/p>\n

Below is a 2-part video clip (yes, you MUST watch both, and in order, to get the message and impact) from the 1989 movie, Dead Poet’s Society<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In it, Robin Williams, playing Professor Keating, ignores conventional teaching procedures and offers his students life-changing access to a brave new world of culture, ideas, and creativity. The story revolves around how the boys are affected by the educator (who they affectionately call “Captain”, after Walt Whitman’s poem about Abraham Lincoln).<\/p>\n

The setting is the tony Welton Academy prep school, circa 1955, and this new English Teacher makes a massive impression on his first set of students. Inspiring these kids — who’ve spent their formative years adhering to the button-down, starched and repressed rules of polite society — to “seize the day” and follow their dreams, Keating becomes a hero to many… and an enemy to a powerful few.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Part 1 ( The Foundation<\/span> )<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nPart 2 ( The Impact<\/span> )<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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To us, this is one of the most impressive and inspiring movies that distill the virtues of individuality <\/em>— a subject we wish more films would tackle.<\/p>\n

Why ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What the movie tackles is precisely what is wrong with the world. Hardly anyone is taught to think for themselves<\/span>. The world is becoming full of drones and Kool-Aid drinkers; very few dare to look at things from a different view. Sad, actually.<\/p>\n

Now, about another tainted movement worth mentioning: entitlement thinking<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It’s the idea that goes like this: “Regardless of how much I @#$% up, I can go groveling to Big Brother for a bail out.” Ah, does the BOB (Big Obama Bailout) sit pretty for you?<\/p>\n

Or, the belief that soars into the consciousness of our children: “Yes, Mom \/ Dad, the world does<\/em> owe me a living. I don’t need to invent, to create, or add value… whattaya thinking? They, my teach peeps, keep telling me not to worry… that all will be provided by the collective efforts of many.”<\/p>\n

Well, it’s time to bring back another brain-zinger through Gary Cooper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here he is, from the 1949 film The Fountainhead<\/em>, based on the novel of the same name by Ayn Rand. Gary Cooper plays Howard Roark as he defends his dynamiting of Cortlandt. Ayn Rand wrote the screenplay herself for the film, so novel purists need not worry.<\/p>\n

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“You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they will not do for themselves.” — originally published, 1942, by William J. H. Boetcker, and commonly attributed to Abraham Lincoln
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[ Editor’s Note<\/strong><\/span> ] — It was Mike, from The Abraham Lincoln Observer<\/a>, who gleefully came to our rescue to correct our original author credit to the above quote. A variation is often attributed to Abe Lincoln, but there’s no actual evidence that he said it. Yup, not only did we get lazy by neglecting the same due-diligence we use when interviewing and writing about mentors, we didn’t even give any related quotes from other people. You know, that’s kinda like being at a cheese party with only one type of cracker \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So, onward we go, this time with author credit dutifully checked:<\/p>\n

From the late Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931-2005)<\/strong>:
\n“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the rich out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply the wealth by dividing it.”<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Thomas Jefferson, commonly attributed to Gerald Ford<\/strong>:
\n“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”<\/p>\n

From Gerald Ford, commonly attributed to Thomas Jefferson<\/strong>:
\n“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”<\/p>\n

From Winston Churchill<\/strong>:
\n“The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of Socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”<\/p>\n

From Ayn Rand<\/strong>:
\n“Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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