Philip Glass "Prison and Protest"
Prison and protest. Two words that are extremely relevant in today’s world.
These words have a deeper meaning beyond their obvious meaning. That’s not only about a building with bars on windows, and not about demonstrations in the streets. That’s about the mental prison in which our consciousness resides, and the inner protest that inevitably arises when we realize that we are in prison. Some countries have freedom, while others do not. But in reality, a free person is free everywhere, and an unfree person is unfree everywhere. Especially now, we see that there are free people in unfree countries, and vice versa. Unfree persons who have left a dictatorial country for a free one carry their inner prison with them and remain its prisoners. But no dictatorship, no prison can turn a person who is free in the deepest sense into a prisoner.
This is the essence of Philip Glass’s entire philosophy. In one way or another, all of his music is about this. About the path to freedom.