Gorilla: Forest to Zoo

"What aspects of human life over the past several thousand years could be likened to a gorilla going from a forest to a zoo?"

Before, a human's life was relatively simple, at least, in terms of thinking. They only hunted, mated, and died. There wasn't a need for them to think deep thoughts, or contemplate the universe, or why things were as they were.

However, once technology came, it, in a way, trapped them with time. Humans were given a period of time in which they had nothing to do, because tools had cut down the time needed to work to survive. Because of it, humans were sort of caged, given plentiful amount of time to just sit and ponder.

If life were just hunting, eating, sleeping, with no time to think, or contemplate, humans wouldn't have the time, or energy to worry or hate. To worry, one has to have the free time to worry, and if technology hadn't given us that free time, I don't think humans would have even had the energy to think about anything other that food, sleep, and sex.

So, a gorilla is taken from the simple, untroubled life of the forest, in which he only need think about food, and would then not even comprehend that there were other matters to worry about. He is then put in a place where food is no longer the problem, but he is now unable to do anything. He is trapped to sit there and do nothing, except *Drum roll*....think.

Humans were once just animals, comprehending only that they needed food. Then, technology came, advanced, and gave them a period of time in which they could just sit. Do nothing. Think.