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all-to-brief experience, and we are really very little in control of what happens to ourselves and our loved ones. It
is if one might ask oneself: “How shall I protect those I love from tragedy? How can I protect myself?”
for a lot of people, as if they would say: “This is what is responsible for my feelings of being out of control. If only
we could lock up all of those dirty criminals, then I would feel safe.”
feeling-affect within and he or she looks to without to identify the origin of this affect, because it is more
threatening, if it originates from within, for if pain comes from without one may be able to avoid it somehow, but if
it comes from within avoidance is impossible. Thus, prisoners are the focus of society feelings of helplessness in
the face of an indifferent world.
men have been put to death by corrupt government policies and procedures and officials acting contrary to justice.
They will say, quite calmly: “Most of those dirty criminals are guilty anyway”, and speak further of the
phenomenon as if it was a war going on [e.g. “in war innocents die”, “collateral damage”, etc.]. This is one facet
of the “Us against Them – God versus Evil” mentality.
our lives amid the splendor of the beautiful earth. Our days, indeed even the seconds, are each numbered, but we
know not the point of deaths cold approach. Perhaps this fixation on imprisonment by mainstream America is an
unconscious effort to exert control over time which can not be slowed-down or stopped, as if a sense of safety or
well-being is [or potentially could be] achieved by controlling the lifetimes of the socially and economically poor,
who are thrown into the prisons and forgotten.
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