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You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?" "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

-Dickens

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“I think that New York [City] is the new model for the New Concentration Camp where the camp has been built by the inmates themselves where the inmates ARE the guards and they have this pride in this thing they’ve built. They’ve built their own prison and so they exist in a state of schizophrenia where they are both guards and prisoners and as a result, they no longer have – having been lobotomized – the capacity to leave the prison they’ve made or to even see it as a prison.” - My Dinner With Andre

If you remove literally every single property that makes a prison a prison, then New York is just like a prison. Got it.

If you need to model large numbers of other people as suffering from severe mental health issues to make your world view fit, chances are it's your world view that's wrong. But that's no fun.

Reminds me of Wonko The Sane from a Douglas Adams book. He built his house as an inside out asylum to contain the entire outside world.

This is a good quote, but I'd argue the author could work this way for years and not make himself a chain. He seems more concerned with whether we could do better.

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