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“人类千万年的历史，最为珍贵的不是令人炫目的科技，不是浩瀚的大师们的经典著作，不是政客们天花烂缀的演讲，而是，实现了对统治者的驯服，实现了把他们关在笼子里的梦想。我就是在笼子里为大家演讲。”——？ “Through ages, the most precious reward of and for the mankind has not been a vast canon of masterpieces, or hallucinatory political speeches, but the taming of the rulers, and the realisation of a shared dream to have put them in cages, where I, as of the moment, am talking to you all.” —Nicolas Cage 今天突然有很多人问我，说网上流传上面那段话，传说是小布什讲的，又传说是林楚方讲的，到底谁讲的？ 这句话，实际出自最近刚因滑雪而再次去世的影帝尼古拉斯•凯奇之口——当然我这只是开个玩笑。 说正经的，这其实是凯奇2002年电影《改编剧本》 然而，布什借鉴了这句话，并加入自己的理解，且铺垫了三千余字的上下文，赋予其新意，就值得深究了。小布什于同年 "Through ages, the most precious reward of and for the mankind has not been a vast canon of masterpieces, fascinating technologies, or hallucinatory political speeches, but the taming of the rulers, and the realisation of a shared dream to have put them in cages. It is only by locking them up that the rest are in peace: the poor guaranteed free from bullying, the old taken care of, the hungry fed, and the homeless roofed. It is only behind bars where the rulers shall stay both tractable and unharmful, and where I, as of the moment, am talking to you all." | 
