Are we living in a cage?

A thought has recently occurred to me, which I want to share. Consider a wild animal (a lion, a monkey, a wolf, etc.) in a zoo. Let it be monkey. It lives in a cage. It has a perception of what's going on inside and outside the cage through its senses — eye sight, hearing, probably other senses too. Energy enters the cage in various forms: food, water, warmth, light. Everything that is required to sustain life. However, boundaries of the cage are completely insurmountable to the monkey. Regardless of his desires, the boundaries of the monkey's existence are those defined by the cage.

Now. How is that different from... human civilization? Seriously. We live on our planet, which receives energy from the Sun in form of warmth and light. The same energy allows for existence of things we eat and drink. We are capable of seeing and hearing (across the full range of electromagnetic spectrum, as well as streams of elementary particles) a very considerable volume of space around us. Man walked on the surface of the Moon and our automated exploration spacecraft traversed the Solar system and reached its outer boundaries. Yet, everything behind those boundaries is completely insurmountable to the human kind. The rest of space (outside Solar system) is separated from us by such unimaginably vast distances, it is completely impossible to imagine a realistic way to even communicate with somebody who is out there, let alone travel to meet them face to face. Even the nearest star is so far away that it takes an electromagnetic wave four years to reach it. And not so nearest stars are tens to billions of light years away.

Thus, we deal with an impenetrable theoretical and practical barrier separating us from the rest of the world. Effectively, this barrier to us is the same thing a cage is to the monkey!

The resemblance is emphasized by the fact that we, like monkeys, perceive the barrier as a natural phenomenon. Cage for the monkey is a natural phenomenon. The result of the blind forces of the elements. The monkey cannot link in its mind the human, the cage and how one created the other. It lacks the skill of abstract thinking required to realize the connection. The same with us — the immense distances between stars and galaxies we perceive to be the result of the elements. An outcome of certain "Big Bang". An event, results of which we are capable of realizing, but its innate meaning is so ever incomprehensible to us. Same for the monkey. Emergence of the cage around it is its "Big Bang". It observes results of it and comprehends them to a degree (it realizes the fact of limitation of freedom), but its innate meaning (creation of the zoo for people's entertainment and education) is completely obscured to it.

To summarize. I don't see anything that could disprove the following statement. Human kind lives in a sort of a cage or paddock created by an intelligent entity which relates to us the same way we relate to the monkey, in the sense of the level of intellect and the ability to wield powers. In relation to the Universe, that "entity" is the creator. What we perceive as laws of nature are effectively artificial constructs created by this supreme being for its own purposes.

Thoughts?