i still look back at most of it with fondness as it was one time in my life i was actually free.
This is an amazing statement. Living outside of the system is hard and uncomfortable (speaking from OTHER'S experiences) but it's what the experience of actual freedom is like in an enslaved world. People who think a certain way will be expelled from this "grid" and it's going to be very uncomfortable, but it will finally bring about the experience real freedom, not the artificial "freedom" that we've been sold.