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