When Humanity's cage is without, it is in suffering.
Once Humanity's cage is within, it is dead.
Defeat is self-inflicted. True battles are never so much conflicts of personal interest as much as they are conflicts of communal principle; the individual's body may suffer, the individual's mind may break, but if their principle is unwavering in spite of hardship, then the individual him/herself is the embodiment of the principle's value.
That a principle could command such allegiance and loyalty is telling; victory has already been gained against the suppressors who believe out of convenience.
