in a cage

if you found yourself in a cage in a world where you were an animal, a human animal, and there were other people outside walking by looking at you in your cage wanting you to be human, to act like a human acts, to just do whatever it is you do... if you found you were in that cage on display in a zoo, your cage labelled human being, day after day, your food left at the edge of your cage, passed through a slot big enough for your food to come in, but not big enough for you to leave your cage... would you eventually become upset, even angry with those passing by each day pointing and laughing and coaxing you to move about, to do something amusing?... would you become still more upset when you find you are being watched eating, sleeping, even going to the bathroom?... people watching, staring, laughing... would you eventually do something to show your frustration, something, perhaps, like throwing your feces at the people?...

oh, but you're not an animal in a cage... you are civilized... aren't you?