Nietzsche saw civilization as a cage suppressing predatory human nature

Evidence

The beasts of prey relishing their escape from the stuffy and stifling cage called civilization and falling back, with a deafening sigh of relief, on their true nature, as Nietzsche seems to suggest? — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 380

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Bauman’s broader thesis on the Holocaust and modernity — this is his standard framing device in Modernity and the Holocaust.