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1996
locked in - locked out
There in the jailhouse, they sit in, all
the "bad boys.
Good locked in, to protect us upright citizens. To treat
them with sentence, reformation of there criminal souls
is the aim, meanwhile we forgot, that punishment -and
especally to lock in somebody- is not automatically
a answere to the question. We stir up the fear of normal
people to the bad
energy of the criminals. They will shurely steal all
our money or even worse our lifes. So we lock up our
doors, have barred windows, have our best in heavy safes,
hire a bodyguard.
We spend a lot of time and energy to think about methods
to lock ourself in a norrowed life, to lock out all
the things that frighten us.
This both barred pictural windows, I made
for this topic, show the contrast between safety on one
hand and self limitation on the other. The description
of well known "criminals" show us clearly that troughout
history the meaning of what is a crime has changed.
So
the story of Onan tell us, who must die for the crime
of refusing sex to the widowed wife of his own brother;
isn´t this a crime,
or not?! |