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A life time fan and Prisonerologist of the 1960's series 'the Prisoner', a leading authority on the subject, a short story writer, and now Prisoner novelist.
Monday, 25 January 2016
Point of Observation!
Strange how a system which once found individuals
as “trying” {or at least that’s what Number 2 said} that in the end was
prepared to embrace Number 6 as an individual. Indeed was prepared to absorb
him into that system. That if they could not shape Number 6 to fit, the system
would be altered in order to make him fit. Remarkable that Number 6 has been an
example to them, in having convinced them of their mistakes. It would seem that
Number 6 knows the way, because suddenly they need him to show them the way! Perhaps Number 2 {as the
High Court Judge} instead of using coercion, which has failed to work against
the Prisoner, tries a different tack, to heap praise upon the Prisoner. He has
revolted. Resisted, fought, held fast, maintained, destroyed, resisted, overcame
coercion. He has earned the right to be a person, someone individual. All that
remains then is the recognition of a man,
a man of steel who apparently is magnificently equipped to lead them, having
proved himself. His revolt has been good and honest. He is an individual who
has vindicated the right of the individual to be individual. And now they need
him! But soft soaping butters no parsnips. Meaning heaping praise on Number 6
didn’t work either. It simply helped bring about another revolt, one violent
and bloody, more of a purge really, in which the only ones to die are the armed
security forces!
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