The (symbolic) plight of caged birds seems quite apt to me, Mad Polly, so much so that I once wrote a protest song about it called "Polly Don't Want No Cracker!"

It's a little bit of humorous satire about condescension and similar issues. ;-) At any rate, the parrot in the song also warns what might happen if those cage bars weren't there.

Some of the verses:

Polly don't want no cracker!
Polly's had it up to here...
Polly don't want no cracker!
Polly's had it up to here...
You can take that goddamn cracker
And stick it in your ear!

Polly don't want no cracker!
Polly just wants some respect.
Polly don't want no cracker!
Polly just wants some respect.
You come pokin' around this cage, boy...
You're gonna get it in the neck!

Bridge:
Polly don't want no cracker
Polly want's a shot of love!
Polly don't want no cracker
Polly wants it from above
Polly don't want no cracker
Polly wants some kind of life!
Polly could use a nice fine-feathered wife...

And so on. ;-) Perhaps we are all somewhat akin to birds in cages, as we are so often trapped in cages of the mind.

I'm glad you liked the thing on role-playing. Rather than pointing fingers, I'd like to focus on the things that trip up all of us at times. We face them together and we must find ways of dealing effectively with them, and not waste our energy sniping at each other.