Never fry a fish till it’s caught

Then again, an island in the middle of the sea has always felt to us like an insufficiently reliable prison and life on it not quite severe a penalty for the crimes committed. This is the reason why we would build a hard-labour-island, chain people to barrows in which they moved coal, flog them with rods and deprive them of the right to as much as dream of freedom.

What are the humanitarian shifts seen over the civilisation’s technocratic period until our day? They are few. The aboriginals have become extinct or assimilated, their culture and language lost; the hard-labour island has turned into a shift-work island for the transcontinental corpora- tions; and the prisoners and hard labourers have been replaced by shift and guest workers ex- tracting fish, gas and oil.

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