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%PSYCHO-SOCIAL CONTEXTS PRISONS 810930
People enjoy enduring meaning and satisfaction only
within the context of psycho-social rituals of affirmation
of their significance as decisive actors in the human
drama. People who do not enjoy such contexts tend to
become frustrated and violent because they are alone in
the crowded ways of life. The society which responds to
such peoples' needs by further excluding them from the
community thereby reduces the community, and so destroys
itself. Prisons tend to destroy community because they
inhibit dialogue which might give meaning and satisfaction
to those who have acted out their frustrations of
alienation. Not all prisons are made of bricks, stones,
and bars. Many prisons are made of psycho-social rituals
of disaffirmation of people's significance---rituals which
undermine their significance as decisive actors in the
human drama.
People who become aware of their insignificance
within the context of psycho-social rituals of
disaffirmation---seek ways to break out of their psycho-
social prisons. They decide to rebel against the people
and society which thus imprisons them---to show that they
are capable of decisive action which is uniquely theirs.
Because their society will not grant them places of
significance within the social context of the society,
such persons must seek significance outside the social
context---in anti-social behavior. When the society
grants them positions of significance within the social
context, such people will no longer need to act anti-
socially to try to escape their psycho-social prisons.
Elitist groups which are granted power tend to become
exclusive and institute psycho-social rituals which
imprison the majority of people who are members of the
minorities defined by the elitist groups. Thus such
elitist groups work to destroy their community. The
technocrats who do this go further, and provide the rebels
which they create with the tools to express the
frustration in decisive acts of violence against the
society which imprisons people in psycho-social prisons of
meaningless insignificance and frustration.
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