paulo@107: I chopped up this Flash animation as part of a school project whose paulo@107: thesis was that, simply, and taking my cue from Ernie Cline, paulo@107: people are just a bunch of monkeys. And a bunch of fucked up monkeys at paulo@107: that: we think we amount to something more than monkeys, but we do not have paulo@107: anything that is uniquely human in its essence. Some of the things we paulo@107: might consider as human distinctions are language and technology, but paulo@107: animals have them as well--only on a lesser scale. If we really wanted to paulo@107: separate ourselves through the sheer degree of which we have these paulo@107: certain skills (and not just "either we have it or we don't"), we might as paulo@107: well consider our unbelievable ability to wage war. Animals kill each paulo@107: other all the time, but only the human monkey can achieve routine paulo@107: genocide. paulo@107:
paulo@107:paulo@107: But whether war is right or wrong is not my point. My point is that paulo@107: war is simply an extension of what the rest of the animal world do: paulo@107: kill each other. We are no more than monkeys in our core. In paulo@107: whatever we do, we still act like monkeys, because that's what we are paulo@107: made out of. paulo@107:
paulo@107:paulo@107: I try to expand on this thought on an paulo@107: essay that accompanies this project. paulo@107: Stress that again: I try. =D paulo@107:
paulo@107:paulo@107: --Paulo Ang (pbba13@hotmail.com) paulo@107:
paulo@107:paulo@107: Back to "Dance, Monkeys, Dance" paulo@107:
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