Imprisonment, Isolation, Freedom

Just as imprisonment isolates someone from a general population, isolation within a prison is imprisonment within imprisonment. Accordingly, therefore, just as 'freedom' for a prisoner is a return to general sociality, the restoration of communication between the two prisoners in the Prisoner's Dilemma is a recovery of a relative 'freedom'. In other words, the model can be interpreted as equating Freedom and Sociality. Now, the concept of the Individual in Smith's system is that of the discrete, opaque, entity that has dominated Western Psychology since both Descartes and Hobbes. So, the Prisoner's Dilemma can be interpreted as an illustration of Capitalism as a prison for its participants, with analogous implications for the concept of Freedom.