[My response to David Brooks:
· people run away from burdens these days. There's nothing they hate more than to be burdened or tied. This accounts for this perverse cult of youthfulness: youth is in itself the yet unburdened state - so we worship youthful looks as the sign and symbol of that craving, almost the promise of its fulfillment. But to attempt to keep it for ever only leads to sterility in every sense: monstrous perversion of youth, destined as blossom of the fruit...
o Broken Lights Diaries 1953-54
But, personally I like Annie Dillard's response to those 'lobotomists' of the spirit..."You first."These people are cowards. They are ignorant of the blessings of 'hard things'. So, when they 'get there' they will go out as empty and as spineless as they have lived. For they never loved.]
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