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Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
by Doris Lessing
This is a brief collection of essays delivered in 1987 by Doris Lessing for the Massey Lectures, a Canadian Broadcasting system series on communicating results of research to the broader public. Lessing focused on research from social psychology and social anthropology. Lessing saw possibility in improving the human condition if people could learn about the impact that the groups we live in, the society we belong to have on our ability for independent thought and action.
As always I trust and appreciate Lessing's self-righteousness. She is committed to the dignity of each individual, to democracy, to the importance of self-expression and she makes this argument through all of her books and with all of her public presentations. These lectures were meandering and I felt that they were so informal that they seemed unedited, sort of just off the cuff. The message is great but the delivery is not Lessing at her best. Also, the lectures seemed quite dated.
As always I trust and appreciate Lessing's self-righteousness. She is committed to the dignity of each individual, to democracy, to the importance of self-expression and she makes this argument through all of her books and with all of her public presentations. These lectures were meandering and I felt that they were so informal that they seemed unedited, sort of just off the cuff. The message is great but the delivery is not Lessing at her best. Also, the lectures seemed quite dated.