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