Prison?

I live in a condominium. Its quite nice really. We sit beside a river, have parkland all around. I've even seen a fair amount of wildlife of late---deer, coyote, owl, eagle. One idea I can't seem to get over is that I see these buildings, for there are four of them on the property, as a prison system. Most of the inhabitants are elderly so you are always being eyed. Everyone must follow the rules. We can't have anything to upset the balance or someone may have a coronary. Its true----the paramedics are here on an almost daily basis. Most of the people here are miserable. There are a few really fantastic people here, but for the most part people in these here parts are miserable at being old and in pain, not finding any meaning in their lives, afraid of death, who knows what else. There is an old woman in my building who wanders making sure all the rules are being followed. She even spies on people from her balcony with her binoculars. Another spends her days collecting golfballs from the perimeter of the golfcourse north of us. This is how she spends her entire day---searching for golfballs for her son who comes to visit her about once a month. She's yelled at me a few times so I don't acknowledge her existence anymore. Back to prison. When you look at all the units from your own you get the eerie feeling that its a little box you live in not unlike a cell. You often see people walking about the grounds like you see on prison grounds with inmates walking around in circles. Same here. These people just walk around the buildings. "You have to keep moving" is often heard. While I do not disagree that some exercise would prolong ones life I can't help thinking why would many of these people want to. I mean they have no life to begin with really. I was reading a bio on a native shaman who had some musings on white society. He could not see the sense in it and I tend to agree with him. This system is set up for the good of a few, not the good of the many for the most part. Anyone who thinks capitalism is a great system is fat, stupid and entirely too sheltered. I say it should be mandatory for every person in north America to go to a 3rd world nation to live for a year. If they survive they of course can return home. If the are still a capitalist at that point I would be surprised. Anyway, thats my rambling for now. A prison with no fences or barbed wire, but a prison just the same.