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| date | Sun, 06 Aug 2023 17:34:26 +0000 |
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| 4 <META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.sf.net"> | |
| 5 <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="dmd.css"> | |
| 6 <TITLE>About Dance, Monkeys, Dance -- A Flash Animation</TITLE> | |
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| 10 <DIV CLASS="header" ID="header"> | |
| 11 <H1>About Dance, Monkeys, Dance -- A Flash Animation</H1> | |
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| 15 <P> | |
| 16 I chopped up this Flash animation as part of a school project whose | |
| 17 thesis was that, simply, and taking my cue from Ernie Cline, | |
| 18 <I>people are just a bunch of monkeys</I>. And a bunch of fucked up monkeys at | |
| 19 that: we think we amount to something more than monkeys, but we do not have | |
| 20 anything that is uniquely human in its essence. Some of the things we | |
| 21 might consider as human distinctions are language and technology, but | |
| 22 animals have them as well--only on a lesser scale. If we really wanted to | |
| 23 separate ourselves through the sheer degree of which we have these | |
| 24 certain skills (and not just "either we have it or we don't"), we might as | |
| 25 well consider our unbelievable ability to wage war. Animals kill each | |
| 26 other all the time, but only the human monkey can achieve routine | |
| 27 genocide. | |
| 28 </P> | |
| 29 <P> | |
| 30 But whether war is right or wrong is not my point. My point is that | |
| 31 war is simply an extension of what the rest of the animal world do: | |
| 32 kill each other. We are no more than monkeys in our core. In | |
| 33 whatever we do, we still act like monkeys, because that's what we are | |
| 34 made out of. | |
| 35 </P> | |
| 36 <P> | |
| 37 I try to expand on this thought on an | |
| 38 <A HREF="cline.pdf">essay that accompanies this project</A>. | |
| 39 Stress that again: <I>I try</I>. =D | |
| 40 </P> | |
| 41 <P> | |
| 42 --Paulo Ang (<A HREF="mailto:pbba13@hotmail.com">pbba13@hotmail.com</A>) | |
| 43 </P> | |
| 44 <P> | |
| 45 <A HREF="dance_monkeys.html">Back to "Dance, Monkeys, Dance"</A> | |
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| 47 </DIV> | |
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