>always important to know the reality of freedom compared to the illusion of freedom. a wolf in the zoo lives the illusion of freedom. When I was a child my parents used to take me to the city zoo. They had all kinds of animals on display: exotic birds and snakes, monkeys, penguins, seals, killer whales, brown bears, black bears, a panda bear, polar bears, wolves, etc. The polar bears stuck out in my mind the most. They always did the same thing every time I saw them. The biggest one would lay on a cement platform and snooze for a while, and then get up and pace back and forth while swinging its head side to side, taking the exact same footsteps each time. It would do this for a while and then go and lay down again. It was the same every time I visited, the same bear laying in the same place and then getting up and pacing along the same path putting his big paws in the same spots each time. He was oblivious to the spectators around him. I only realized after I grew a little older that that bear had been taken out of his natural habitat and put in that zoo for our human amusement, and that his loss of his past life made him so unhappy that he had become like a robot, going through these same motions each day for years until he died.