That's quite an accurate relation. Like If your an individual with high moral beliefs, and the country you live in forces you to pay taxes that fund something that violates those morals, then the only "right" thing to do is refuse to pay. Thus resulting in imprisonment for being a moral individual. It's like what Mrs. Lewis was talking about with Martin Luther King, and Gandhi.
I don't know. I think that basically the whole world/society/whatever is a prison in some way, to most people at least. The exceptions to this are those "free people" to whom it wouldn't likely matter whether they were in a prison or the real world.
For instance, a truly free man/woman would be able to somehow transcend the variety of prisons that entrap most of us--things like money, insecurity, other bullshit. And so that person wouldn't care if they were in prison either, because they'd transcned that prison, in their heads anyway, as well.
I think that maybe prison would be freeing to those who see the bars of society/the world but are not yet to the point of transcendence. People like Gandhi and MLK were just as free in prison as out, I think, but there are others who would be freed by prison.
There's this really good book called Veronika Decides to Die that kind of discusses a subject sort of like this in regards to mental hospitals.
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For instance, a truly free man/woman would be able to somehow transcend the variety of prisons that entrap most of us--things like money, insecurity, other bullshit. And so that person wouldn't care if they were in prison either, because they'd transcned that prison, in their heads anyway, as well.
I think that maybe prison would be freeing to those who see the bars of society/the world but are not yet to the point of transcendence. People like Gandhi and MLK were just as free in prison as out, I think, but there are others who would be freed by prison.
There's this really good book called Veronika Decides to Die that kind of discusses a subject sort of like this in regards to mental hospitals.
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I do admire Dr. King and Gandhi
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