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paulo@107 11 <H1>About Dance, Monkeys, Dance -- A Flash Animation</H1>
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paulo@107 16 I chopped up this Flash animation as part of a school project whose
paulo@107 17 thesis was that, simply, and taking my cue from Ernie Cline,
paulo@107 18 <I>people are just a bunch of monkeys</I>. And a bunch of fucked up monkeys at
paulo@107 19 that: we think we amount to something more than monkeys, but we do not have
paulo@107 20 anything that is uniquely human in its essence. Some of the things we
paulo@107 21 might consider as human distinctions are language and technology, but
paulo@107 22 animals have them as well--only on a lesser scale. If we really wanted to
paulo@107 23 separate ourselves through the sheer degree of which we have these
paulo@107 24 certain skills (and not just "either we have it or we don't"), we might as
paulo@107 25 well consider our unbelievable ability to wage war. Animals kill each
paulo@107 26 other all the time, but only the human monkey can achieve routine
paulo@107 27 genocide.
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paulo@107 30 But whether war is right or wrong is not my point. My point is that
paulo@107 31 war is simply an extension of what the rest of the animal world do:
paulo@107 32 kill each other. We are no more than monkeys in our core. In
paulo@107 33 whatever we do, we still act like monkeys, because that's what we are
paulo@107 34 made out of.
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paulo@107 37 I try to expand on this thought on an
paulo@107 38 <A HREF="cline.pdf">essay that accompanies this project</A>.
paulo@107 39 Stress that again: <I>I try</I>. =D
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paulo@107 41 <P>
paulo@107 42 --Paulo Ang (<A HREF="mailto:pbba13@hotmail.com">pbba13@hotmail.com</A>)
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