I am Not an 'ism'

[RonneJJones]

I am not an "ism", I am a man!

YouTube - The Prisoner TV Show Opening Theme 1967 - 1968 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om8Xwa3MhaU)




The entire original The Prisoner series can now be viewed online at
http://www.amctv.com/originals/the-prisoner-1960s-series/

The series is an allegory for current society. It is highly recommended.

[diggronpaul]

New Prisoner movie/series, that is in development, teaser poster shows Ian McKellen as the new Number 2 holding up a medicine bottle with Jim Caviezel, as Number 6, trapped inside


http://www.theprisoneronline.com/images/stories/Prisoner20209Tease.jpg

Is this to represent a drugged out society in a glass walled prison that we cannot see?..... sounds like they wanna mock us some more.


This from Wikipedia on "-ism"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism

"denotes a distinctive system of beliefs, myth, doctrine or theory that guides a social movement, institution, class or group"

"The first recorded usage of the suffix ism as a separate word in its own right was in 1680. By the nineteenth century it was being used by Thomas Carlyle to signify a pre-packaged ideology. It was later used in this sense by such writers as Julian Huxley and George Bernard Shaw. In the United States of the mid-nineteenth century, the phrase "the isms" was used as a collective derogatory term to lump together the radical social reform movements of the day (such as slavery abolitionism, feminism, alcohol prohibitionism, Fourierism, pacifism, early socialism, etc.) and various spiritual or religious movements considered non-mainstream by the standards of the time (such as Transcendentalism, spiritualism or "spirit rapping", Mormonism, the Oneida movement often accused of "free love", etc.)."