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It comes from a story I heard about why monkeys don't make good pets. You put a monkey in a cage and all it has to do all day is think about how to get out, and because its smart and its got hands, it will always cause you mayhem. Now, when I was surpervising hourly employees I had way more people than work, which means they had a lot of time on their hands, which means they were bored and had to find ways to entertain themselves. They were very much like monkeys in a cage and they were always causing mayhem. That experience became a lesson on the nature of life. Its really a metaphor for civilization. We're all monkeys in a cage my friend and there's no way out, so the result is mayhem. Why do you think people, society, everything is so fucked up? Monkeys in a cage.
(I love how I used mayhem here and above. That was unplanned but excellant, as are all the best things in life.)