The post you are reporting:
a-"Softly softly"
b-"Model citizens"
c-"Save money"
A-Life IS cruel, the past IS littered with examples. Has human society then attained it's zenith in knowing how to best utilise cruelty? If 'prison' is the answer, what is the question.
B-Is there an agreed definition of what a 'citizen' is? Without that how could we form an opinion as to what the optimum 'Model' might be.
C-On the one hand is the rut:Lies, damn lies and Statistics, on the other; can money be saved? The word itself feels as if it is more verb than noun.
All of that and yet no mention of, "top 'em", but do any of us harbour an ambition to emulate Tony Blair, and rain death down upon others just because we can.
A wise fellow would not pick out "value" as a sub-topic, but then again dear Roger, you are stuck with me. 'Utility', isn't it? Prison IS the answer because (in the main - most definitely) prison is for other people.
When 'they' are in prison (learning something new every day, building relationships, lying alone and bored or in association and bored, musing or chewing-the-fat over how it might have been/how it could be, if only...they didn't get caught)
Perhaps what all this is about is 'despair'. 'They' constantly/incessantly/wilfully refuse to toe the (my!) line and so must suffer the consequences.
The root of the problem, I-M-'H'-O, is that: All begins with despair. This is the one lesson learned from history, and (oddly) what we are doomed to carry forward.
Simply: 'They' do toe-the-line, and how. Burglars, for instance, add an extra dimension to 'inbuilt obsolescence', product development and the fad/fashion re-purchase of goods. Police, Courts, Social Services, Insurance and the general and home security industry;not to mention Prisons. Where would they be without the feckless felon?
Who better oils the wheels of consumerism: The trade delegation led by a minor (or not so minor) Royal, or the humble house-breaker? [sometimes the tongue will not stay within the confines of the teeth]
