Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.