this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (8 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] qisope 5 points 1 year ago

free yourself from these dermal bonds!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not me, i costed my parents quite a bit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Especially pants

Pants are a prison

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

No, you're a prison

You are your own prison

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Your mom is my prison

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even prison … who would've thought

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even prison

Especially prison

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Werner Herzog?

Hey, I'm really glad you joined Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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.