A Strange Prison Story

A man was sent to prison but prison in the community is atop a tall pillar where the solitary prisoner would live. They could admire the world going on but would be too distant to engage in it. The torture is showing what they are missing. Ironically, the prisoners end up becoming the mot knowledgeable about society and its working and we follow the prisoner going through the revelations of knowledge. He begins almost completely ignorant, smart but untaught to society, born and "raised" in the wild. Things noticed are at first strange to the prisoner but with time to work them out he finds solutions. Sometimes these conclusions are erroneous and sometimes correct by future knowledge or by a re-evaluation of, recent learned knowledge and their potential impacts. Some are never corrected and potentially overlay with the authors conceptions of societal flaws. Beginning with prisoner attempting to shout down but falling on deaf ears.