In Disciple and Punish, the philosopher Michel Foucault reflects on Bentham's image of the panopticon as the ideal prison. Prisoners constantly under the gaze of a lone guard in a central tower, Foucault argued, is an image of pure power and worse than torture. For Sunday's sermon I tried to apply Foucault's argument to the 3rd servant's confession 'I know you're a harsh Master' in Matthew 25. I did so by way of Bette Midler.