Asphyxiation of the Soul

Is it little things that cause people to lose touch with their inner Self?

In Alan Sillitoe’s short story, ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’, which became a film with the same name, the central character Colin Smith is a borstal boy, put there after a series of petty criminalities. The governor of the institution, Ruxton, is ‘progressive’ and looks for the boys to find an approved path to rehabilitation; one of the …