Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Worldwide Ty) in which one speaker (SPEAKER A) introduces and questions the notion of a "shiny prison" — the idea that imprisonment can appear pleasant or well-kept and thereby conceal the fact of being trapped — and asks when the concept was first coined or for an example to clarify it.
And it just sounded like something I've never heard no one say. I never even imagined that a prison could be shiny. Prisons are usually some of the darkest, dankest, most terrible places a person can exist in. Not in the Fed. From the stories I've heard, I've never been to prison. Me neither. But when you talk about shiny prison, it seems like something that can almost confuse you. You might not even realize that you're trapped or that you can't get out. So do you know when you first conceptualize the idea or an example of what a shiny prison is for somebody who might not understand right?
