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| date | Tue, 28 May 2024 06:23:58 +0000 |
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11 <H1>About Dance, Monkeys, Dance -- A Flash Animation</H1>
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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.
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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.
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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
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42 --Paulo Ang (<A HREF="mailto:pbba13@hotmail.com">pbba13@hotmail.com</A>)
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