>>15093165A lot of zoo animals truly hate captivity, and refuse to breed, but if the public still pays to see them, the zookeeper keeps them around in their sullen state. And gradually new animals are introduced to the enclosure, and sometimes the old sullen one gets moved off to a private collection or a lower-tier zoo, and the process repeats, until you find some breeders, and buddy, then your business booms. The powerful can just abuse the powerless until you find specimens willing to accept their lot in life and bring new life into the world that will only ever know captivity. Worst part is, when it's all they know, sometimes they end up pretty content. There are always exceptions. Lots of them. But you can get rid of them in various ways and nurture the compliant mind. And that's where we are now. I was at a little display the other day. Sparsely attended. There was one nice Asian girl with her hapa baby and her mixed bag friend with hers, expensive strollers, and they were talking at each other in reifying language. It is good to be here. I am doing things. Lots of giggling. Awkward selfies. Manic smiles. And God bless 'em, they have kids and bought expensive strollers and probably drive premium vehicles. If you give up on ownership, renting a townhouse for $2700 a month in a 2-income household makes a Q or X5 very reasonable. They're good zoo stock, and I'm not, and I'm being gradually punished for it.
Where I'm going with this, markets don't need to hear what's wrong with them. If the world is a bazaar and you don't like the bazaar, you're free to go back to the desert outside the walls. So all the cope in the world isn't going to convince the murmuring wanderers to attack the guards, and even if they did, there are so many layers of guards between you and the effendi, and layers of effendi. So yes, you are being shamed. Shop or die. Blame your parents and their parents for coming to this, but that's how it is now.
