Reflections on my incarceration written from my last prison cell, a comprehensive application of modern scientific theory to America's social disorder.
"... the lives of those who will come after you are depending on you to do everything you can to look out for them any way you possibly can."
Your evocative final paragraphs reminded me of my favorite closing sentence of a novel -- George Eliot's _Middlemarch_:
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
Sep 11, 2023·edited Sep 11, 2023Liked by Harvard2TheBigHouse
Thank you for your insights and perspectives of environmental social complexities of the criminal injustice system. The amount of chronic inflammation caused by lockdowns through the emotional stress, poor-nutrition, and physical deconditioning are well known. It appears that the nation became a large prison with lockdowns, because we saw the injustices and inequalities allowed to the undeserved and lived in fear of retribution for non-compliance. While not as severe as true prison, the mental effects on the children appears to be the same with poor prefrontal cortex development, regardless of race or income level. The kids are in a psychological war zone and are learning to be fascists from the programming.
So hard to read as a dad, but the beauty of the narrative and deep insights it provides into neurology, prison life, and bureaucracy make me proud.
And on rereading, I have to add that the above should be required reading/study for all Criminal Justice programs.
"... the lives of those who will come after you are depending on you to do everything you can to look out for them any way you possibly can."
Your evocative final paragraphs reminded me of my favorite closing sentence of a novel -- George Eliot's _Middlemarch_:
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
Thank you for your insights and perspectives of environmental social complexities of the criminal injustice system. The amount of chronic inflammation caused by lockdowns through the emotional stress, poor-nutrition, and physical deconditioning are well known. It appears that the nation became a large prison with lockdowns, because we saw the injustices and inequalities allowed to the undeserved and lived in fear of retribution for non-compliance. While not as severe as true prison, the mental effects on the children appears to be the same with poor prefrontal cortex development, regardless of race or income level. The kids are in a psychological war zone and are learning to be fascists from the programming.