When I lived in the States I was amazed by just how large the carceral state loomed in everyone's imagination. Just normal pleasures like a beer in the park had the shadow of wrecked lives and punitive state violence lingering around.
I was coming from Belfast where the cops were literally disappearing and torturing people and we weren't as afraid of them as the average long Island snout house dipshit.
When I lived in the States I was amazed by just how large the carceral state loomed in everyone's imagination. Just normal pleasures like a beer in the park had the shadow of wrecked lives and punitive state violence lingering around.