🚀 go-pugleaf

Come on, really.  Aren't we all in cages if you really think about it? 
Our jobs, our suburbs, our cities.  We're all just waiting for the cage
to open but it never does.  So serious you are, but there is little
freedom in the American way beyond the deals you make with yourself.  If
you don't like zoos, stay away, but don't give me that PC manure about
what I can and cannot enjoy.  I've travelled all over the world and there
is no wonderland.  Take what you can from life and deal with the
problems, but don't give me that old argument about anthrocentric ideals.
If you wantt to see a real zoo, go to the loop and look at the people. 
At least we agree to feed the animals in Lincoln Park.  In short, bug
off and leave us alone.  If you can't relate with collection and
exhibition, fine.  I like zoos.  I like animals and it's a good deal more
difficult to come up with the money to head to Africa or China to find
the species that might not be there when you arrive.  We have had
thousands of years to find a free and natural life and still we box
ourselves away in highrise apartments and billion dollar urban office
complexes.  We are running the environment into the ground, but will
boycotting the zoo bring back the things we've destroyed.  If you want to
change the world, do it, but frankly I don't think you can do it.  There
are too many deals and too much money at stake where it really counts to
reverse the flow of this world's downward spiral.  Eventually we will no
longer have the room to exist and then the system will start again, just
as it always has, but until then we are basically running down a blind
street so enjoy it while you can.  I'm so tired of the preachers and the
moral minority.  If you don't like life the way it is, fine, but leave me
out of your utopian didactics.  If you like animals and you can't pop off
to Africa, go to the zoo.  Take some pictures.  Relax.  If you can't deal
with that, don't go, but quit lecturing.

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