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     1.4 +About Dance, Monkeys, Dance -- A Flash Animation
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     1.9 +I chopped up this Flash animation as part of a school project whose
    1.10 +thesis was that, simply, and taking my cue from Ernie Cline,
    1.11 +//people are just a bunch of monkeys//. And a bunch of fucked up monkeys at
    1.12 +that: we think we amount to something more than monkeys, but we do not have
    1.13 +anything that is uniquely human in its essence. Some of the things we
    1.14 +might consider as human distinctions are language and technology, but
    1.15 +animals have them as well--only on a lesser scale. If we really wanted to
    1.16 +separate ourselves through the sheer degree of which we have these
    1.17 +certain skills (and not just "either we have it or we don't"), we might as
    1.18 +well consider our unbelievable ability to wage war. Animals kill each
    1.19 +other all the time, but only the human monkey can achieve routine
    1.20 +genocide.
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    1.22 +But whether war is right or wrong is not my point. My point is that
    1.23 +war is simply an extension of what the rest of the animal world do:
    1.24 +kill each other. We are no more than monkeys in our core. In
    1.25 +whatever we do, we still act like monkeys, because that's what we are
    1.26 +made out of.
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    1.28 +I try to expand on this thought on an
    1.29 +[essay that accompanies this project cline.pdf].
    1.30 +Stress that again: //I try//. =D
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    1.32 +--Paulo Ang (pbba13@hotmail.com)
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