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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.
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.
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
29 --Paulo Ang (pbba13@hotmail.com)
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