OK, don’t laugh.. in what seemed like a reckless moment last night – and at only 5 euro – I purchased an Irish Classic on DVD. Set in the West of Ireland, in the idyllic village of Innisfree, yesss, you’ve guessed it, John Wayne is The Quiet Man.
20 minutes later I was strew across my couch, frenzied feeding on my large white and blue value box of Jaffa cakes, grinning and marveling at the antiquated ideals and the simplistic lifestyles portrayed in this legendary Hollywood film.
Why was I so impressed? At first, I thought maybe it was because of my Irish roots and my distant memories of the rural settings that my forefathers came from? Or, maybe the Irish tranquility of Innisfree reminds me of our semi-rural home here at the stables in Kildare. My avidness is probably a mixture of both of these things, but more-so, I really loved the ideals and uncomplicated lifestyles being portrayed by the actors.
Living simply as a ‘human being‘, as opposed to a utilitarian ‘human doing’, is an ideal I never want to lose sight off. Sadly, life is not like this ignorant bliss anymore, and neither are people. As a society, we just seem obsessed with speed, technology, consuming and frankly ourselves more than anything else, and, of course not forgetting, keeping everything very ‘PC.’
The BIG question is though: is there any way back to this lifestyle? or, are we bound for more hasty, cold consumption with more mutations of political correctness in the future?
Oh, and by the way, I think that I could have a good shot at taking the big ‘yank’ John Thorton. He’d be a handful though.
Now, for just a minute, take yourself off to tense Innisfree and enjoy the famous finale-scrap of Thorton Vs Danagher - HERE.
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