...a simple message, that sounds an insidious, powerful truth and one that I feel deserves more recognition.

 

audio from the DVD of the motion picture ~The Contender~ DreamWorks 2000
There is a little story or parable that I first read at jeffbridges.com a couple years back. I then heard it being delivered by Bridges in the "deleted scenes" on the DVD for the movie The Contender. Jeff is portraying a U.S. President in a difficult situation. There is an easy conventional way out of the quandary that no one would question, but there is also the right way out. In the scene the president uses this story when he invites in two top advisors for a rather cryptic pep talk....