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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Everything is a prison. Society is a prison. School is a prison. Office is a prison. Jail is a prison. Prison is a prison.

[–] _cnt0@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This comment section is a prison. I'm not stuck here with you, though. You're stuck with me!

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just you and me. Huis clos, no exit. Hell is other people. Hell is prison btw

After all the Camus references about Sisyphus, it's time for Sartre (actually it's not, Camus is way cooler)

[–] _cnt0@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Now, insert your recreation rod into my receptacle.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I'm lost on this one. Is it part of the play? I have only superficial knowledge about it

[–] _cnt0@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

After Camus and Sartre, I threw in some random Cicero (first half) and then something completely random (second) because I should hate to be predictable.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] qisope@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

free yourself from these dermal bonds!

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Especially pants

Pants are a prison

[–] Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Not me, i costed my parents quite a bit.

[–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago

No, you're a prison

You are your own prison

[–] optissima@possumpat.io 3 points 2 years ago

Your mom is my prison

[–] u202307011927@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even prison … who would've thought

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even prison

Especially prison

[–] Oiconomia@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Foucault's view of society as a panopticon is like discovering that our daily lives are a suspenseful thriller, with surveillance cameras hidden behind every corner or your know just modern surveillance capitalism.