to follow up on Klausfloride's comment and phenomx87's reference:
the entire Morgan Freemam quote from The Shawshank Redemption is:
"..these walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, it gets so you depend on 'em. That's 'institutionalized'...They send you here for life and that's exactly what they take, the part that counts anyway."
This is what Freeman's character Red says about another character named Brooks. He refers to the jail and claims that it takes the quality of being independent from a person.
this fits well with the ending of Are You OK Kiddo?
"i've learned not to despise this sentiment
complacency invokes atrophy's embrace
and so what if i can't leave this room?
that never stopped us before
(i've learned to forget my desires)"
so the complacency/comfort of having been 'institutionalized' to a jail or room by society is
exactly what hhll talks about. It's the dependency on that new surrounding or the rejection of a new environment that comes directly from the isolation they suffered.
not ONLY does the narrator of the song give up on trying to change the world, he's given up on trying to be a part of it. fuck it. he'll stay in his room. it's never stopped him before.
to follow up on Klausfloride's comment and phenomx87's reference:
the entire Morgan Freemam quote from The Shawshank Redemption is:
"..these walls are funny. First you hate 'em, then you get used to 'em. Enough time passes, it gets so you depend on 'em. That's 'institutionalized'...They send you here for life and that's exactly what they take, the part that counts anyway."
This is what Freeman's character Red says about another character named Brooks. He refers to the jail and claims that it takes the quality of being independent from a person.
this fits well with the ending of Are You OK Kiddo?
"i've learned not to despise this sentiment complacency invokes atrophy's embrace and so what if i can't leave this room? that never stopped us before (i've learned to forget my desires)"
so the complacency/comfort of having been 'institutionalized' to a jail or room by society is exactly what hhll talks about. It's the dependency on that new surrounding or the rejection of a new environment that comes directly from the isolation they suffered.
not ONLY does the narrator of the song give up on trying to change the world, he's given up on trying to be a part of it. fuck it. he'll stay in his room. it's never stopped him before.