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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
People for whom this quote strongly resonates: What are some specific things in your life (or our lives) that are a good fit for the metaphor of being prison walls? https://twitter.com/tferriss/status/1765068944963166530
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@vgr
Doesn’t resonate too much, but: passports and visas, drug prescriptions, rental leases I’m mostly a conformist. I just try to avoid getting arrested and sent to prisons where that becomes a problem. Eg: being financially precarious enough you’re forced to get a regular job is a kind of “going to prison”
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Jonny Mack
@nonlinear.eth
central banking, legal tender laws, government-granted monopolies
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Les Greys
@les
Lately been applying the ideas of language & literacy, or lack of them, as prison walls. e.g. "Since I don't speak english and older, I just have to be an Uber driver" (this is translated from spanish & paraphrased a bit). I'd venture to say families can be prison walls to some. Hopefully this fits.
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McBain
@mcbain
Loneliness It’s as simple as inviting people to do things with you. Especially your neighbors.
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@bias
web2 surveillance capitalist platforms, see related: https://warpcast.com/bias/0x9c9c36b8
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@timigod.eth
Passports & visas are a huge one. It’s such a horrible feeling (that the west takes for granted), not being able to go anywhere I want, despite having the money to. https://warpcast.com/vgr/0x354e8d80
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@grin
https://warpcast.com/grin/0xe2607ec9
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@benersing
The nice house, luxury car, designer clothing and watches, etc
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Brad Barrish
@bradbarrish
Financial maximization. The belief that we have to help others build things, many of which are to our own detriment, in order to be "successful". Productivity.
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Sina Habibian
@sinahab
If you take the Buddhist lens: any desire, habit, belief, or self-identity not knowingly opted into.
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Anything if you see it as a prison wall. Nothing if you don't.
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Paul Miller
@paulm
Foucault wrote a whole book on that, “Discipline and punish”. Mentioning schools, jobs, etc.
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Mark Tyneway
@tynes
Norms around nuclear family, breaking free into coliving can make social fulfillment and healthy living cheaper
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@simonapop
From a societal and psychological angle - self imposed prison walls through internalization of societal norms + personal limiting beliefs. Fear of failure, deep desire for approval, social conditioning with blind conformism (I’m talking gradient from minute things to great)
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@afl
Many things come to mind for prison walls engulfing every day humanity —clout, success, recognition, credentials, degrees, marriage. We often forget that the social contract we’ve accepted (with all its variations across different societies) is a human construct. What we accept/reject/improve is up to each of us.
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Dima Buterin
@dbuterin
I think for most humans the biggest prison wall is the subconscious desire to be liked, validated, approved by others
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@harden-hardys
Walls: Linux. Primary and secondary storage. Mistaking output for knowledge, rather than the embedding. Underrating the predominance of recursion.
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Toxic Achievement Culture Where the never ending self inflicted grind for self improvement leads to burnout as we are never “good enough”. “The auto-exploiting subject carries around its own labor camp … As a self-illuminating, self-surveilling subject it bears its own internal panopticon” - Byung-Chul Han
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@sgt-sl8termelon
Cultural conventions about work and school and how much time we have to devote to those things and in what setting.
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