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In 1969, NBC television broadcasted the almost 1 hour lasting screenplay The Cube which was shown once, before it disappeared from the screen, and was forgotten. It was written by Jim Henson, the creator of Sesame Street, who was then 33 year old (1936 – 1990).

Life is a Cube. People talk about freedom, which needs to be defended, which they also call "freedom in boundaries". They say they’ve got a free will, and really believe it, while they are bound by traditions and opinions and are controlled and driven by their desires and obligations, longings, fears, libido, the urge to perform and greed. And on top of that, all that other people want and expect from them, which brought Sartre to the statement: “L’enfer, c’est les autres.”
That is their Cube and in that Cube they’ve got to make the best of it, because escape is impossible. That is what they have heard their entire life and so that is what they believe. And why would you try to escape then? They don’t know any better, and their way of life has become so “natural”, that they really can’t see how bounded, limited and narrow their lives actually are. Once they must have had a clear moment in which they had the feeling life might be more, but that thought was too threatening. And so they neglected that thought, and stayed with the idea that escape is impossible.

And what do they do in their Cubes? Well, they’re very busy decorating it, having so called fun, playing a role, partying, getting sick and eventually dying in it, without every having seen the real world.

Description
In 1969, NBC television broadcasted the almost 1 hour lasting screenplay The Cube which was shown once, before it disappeared from the screen, and was forgotten. It was written by Jim Henson, the creator of Sesame Street, who was then 33 year old (1936 – 1990).

Life is a Cube. People talk about freedom, which needs to be defended, which they also call "freedom in boundaries". They say they’ve got a free will, and really believe it, while they are bound by traditions and opinions and are controlled and driven by their desires and obligations, longings, fears, libido, the urge to perform and greed. And on top of that, all that other people want and expect from them, which brought Sartre to the statement: “L’enfer, c’est les autres.”
That is their Cube and in that Cube they’ve got to make the best of it, because escape is impossible. That is what they have heard their entire life and so that is what they believe. And why would you try to escape then? They don’t know any better, and their way of life has become so “natural”, that they really can’t see how bounded, limited and narrow their lives actually are. Once they must have had a clear moment in which they had the feeling life might be more, but that thought was too threatening. And so they neglected that thought, and stayed with the idea that escape is impossible.

And what do they do in their Cubes? Well, they’re very busy decorating it, having so called fun, playing a role, partying, getting sick and eventually dying in it, without every having seen the real world.