My high school definitely had a prison feel to it, but at the same time you learn plenty of interesting and uninteresting things along the way. But if you really start looking into the nature of life itself, you can also make the argument that having a body is a type of prison as well.
You have to feed the body; you have to wash the body; you have to struggle to survive and keep the body operating.
Physical existence itself seem to be very akin to prison, no?
Is our body a prison? No, that is ridiculous. Our body is a vessel that is essential to our being. Is forcing a child to go to a state institution to be "educated" an essential part of being? I think not, no. That is, unless you believe 2+2=5 kinda.
What I meant by that is that we are still prisoners to natural laws, like gravity. So no matter how free we are in society, there are still natural influences that limit us in some way. But society is far more oppressive than nature at this point.
Yea, I dig it. Just no so much a prision as institutions like prisons or schools. Great post though really appreciate the commentary and subject matter as it affects nearly everyone
The only positive thing I can think from school is that I met a lot of interesting people and I befriended some with whom I still keep in touch with, one of my best friends is from highschool.
But that didn't justify the mandatory indoctrination that I got along the way, which like 80% of it I don't remember anymore. Basically just gibberish literature, geography (they literally made us memorize all small towns in the zone) and other crap.
Yes human existence is wretched, but exactly because of this reason. There is no law in the cosmos that says that it should be this way. Humanity is capable of more and more beautiful things, but it chooses to live in hell instead.