As I’ve said for at least 30 years, if I were a Gazelle, I’d rather live in the danger and freedom of the Serengeti than the comfort and safety of a zoo.
“They” are trying to turn us into zoo animals. I’m not interested.
We are all zoo animals to some extent. It sounds like you are one of those like me, constantly bucking against the fences. To me, the Liberty of my youth has been more or less gone for some time.