Hi Tony,
Not so fast. List the things you're thinking of (as many as you want) and then imagine someone being deprived of any of them (we're not talking about food/water/air). Such deprivation may be be convenient or perhaps not very nice, but we'd get along. Deprived of creative outlet, the creation of what is important and beautiful to us and the opportunity to share it with others in our society, humans begin to lose their minds. That would be a prison of despair and utter blackness. People don't tend to do well in those situations.
We don't think about it very much because we're never really deprived of these things (except by choice).
Kind regards,
Andy Rutledge
www.bonsai365.com/ :: living bonsai every day
zone 8, Texas