As society evolves, it creates new and more insidious prisons—prisons for our time, prisons for our energy, prisons for our thoughts, prisons that are made of obligation and identity….eventually, rather than the accumulation of accolades/wealth/power or even lifestyle, I believe that our collective focus will evolve to center on freedom from ALL prisons, both tangible and intangible.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
There’s a great Aussie song I love called Jails. It goes; “we build jails for those who can’t build their own…”
this has always resonated with me….
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Interesting…With the history of Australia as a penal colony back in the day, that’s a really amazing cultural offshoot in art. And it’s so true that people often build their own. Do you happen to know the name of the song? I’d like to look up the rest of it. Intriguing.
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Ha, I never made the connection with Aus as being a penal colony! Takes an outsider to make that connection. The song is (aptly) named Jails and you can find out a bit here https://www.discogs.com/Tex-Don-Charlie-All-Is-Forgiven/release/3494983
but because they’re a local (smallish) band here in OZ there’s not much info about them on the internet… 😦
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I can see why! Damn that’s a great line
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Sadly, sometimes we need those prisons to survive; however much we would like to escape from them.
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Not to survive, but perhaps to participate in what you’re used to. There’s no shame in participating, but remember you have a choice.
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Remember that some do not have any choice about their required partipcation, and have to do so against their will or consent.
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Indeed! They are sometimes valuable experiences/steps we must go through. To think otherwise—to dogmatically deny them—would just be creating another prison in your head
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I’m not sure who would not have a choice unless they are actually physically imprisoned, and most of the time, not always, even they had a choice at some point. Can you help me understand more clearly what type of circumstances you mean?
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So interesting. From my older…I’m not old yet…perspective, I’ll note that my grandparents born around 1908 or so saw societal and technological changes as an advance on freeing their time and energy and thoughts from mere subsistence. The daily chores were all consuming and they had little time for ‘higher’ pursuits or leisure. Notice the word ‘advance.’ I agree with you, however, that as we have developed ‘free’ time so have our politicians and the wealthy level of entrepreneurs. As always, being humans like the rest of us, they watch for opportunities. They will gladly imprison anyone to pay them who will do so. And again, like all of us, they want others to sign on to what they are passionate about. We want others to read our stories. They want others to sign on to their ideology. It may or may not be sinister. So far we can sign up or flee. When you can no longer flee, it’s time to fight the power.
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Not sinister at all. I believe it’s just human nature iterated in a way that’s not so pleasant for the rest of us. I sincerely believe that if we were subjected to their life experiences, we would most likely think as they do.
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Interesting view. I’m inclined to believe that too, but I’ve known people from the same family with very similar backgrounds who turn out to make very different fundamental choices – including on how they treat others. But I suppose it could be argued that their everyday experiences were bound to expose them to different treatment from each other somewhere along the way. Definitely your upbringing and experiences shape your values and your early values tend to shape your future. Even if you rebel against them that has shaped you as well.
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People today crave independence, yet we have made ourselves boxes and fiercely defend them. I am offended by thus and such and you can’t make me get out of my special box of specialness to get me to think outside of this box. So, there.
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Hahaha! Well said!
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Thank you!
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