while i've always had the tendency to think differently from the people around me what really made a seemingly unbridgeable chasm between me and everyone else who wants to play politics was going to prison. even the radicals who pay lipservice to the idea that we live in captivity havent really gone out and felt the limits of their confinement. when you feel the bars of your cage it stops being possible to play nice with the citizens who run the prison and it becomes much harder to gain any traction for a "movement" (gang) or whatever if you're no longer able to recruit people who still believe the practice of confining creatures is acceptable in some circumstances