" In a society where men have become law-abiding machines, the worst men are the best, and the best men are the worst. The soldiers going to fight the war in Mexico “command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt”; the government would “crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels,” and the only place in town where Thoreau feels truly free is prison. "

― Jenny Odell , How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy