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