Not knowing you're caged
One of the scariest realizations that a person can have is to be told that they were in a cage. This cage can be either emotional or real - it depends on how strongly you believe you're free. If you're putting a newborn fish into a bowl in your living room, it knows no river. And if you don't know it, it simply doesnt exist for you. As we perceive the fish has, it has no sense of what freedom is. But there's something that's only revealed once you look at it while you are that fish. That the world, no matter how small or brief it is, we make up the meaning and free will with what we have. In an ideal, truly isolated regime , everything that matters for the commoner is only their surroundings. You don't see the walls, because the walls look like freedom. You see the skies, but you just can't reach them. You see power, but you just can't have it. Doesn't all that feel relatable? at least a little bit. It's just that we all live in cages that we a...