We Are All Prisoners Of Democracy

Or, how The Village is constituted

“Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages.” Number 2: “Keep going. They love it.”

“Free For All” is perhaps my very favorite television episode of any show, ever. Watching it for the first time in 1993 eventually led me to pursue a bachelor's degree in political science in 2001. Global…