paulo@107: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> paulo@107: <HTML> paulo@107: <HEAD> paulo@107: <META NAME="generator" CONTENT="http://txt2tags.sf.net"> paulo@107: <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" HREF="dmd.css"> paulo@107: <TITLE>About Dance, Monkeys, Dance -- A Flash Animation</TITLE> paulo@107: </HEAD> paulo@107: <BODY> paulo@107: paulo@107: <DIV CLASS="header" ID="header"> paulo@107: <H1>About Dance, Monkeys, Dance -- A Flash Animation</H1> paulo@107: </DIV> paulo@107: paulo@107: <DIV CLASS="body" ID="body"> paulo@107: <P> 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: <I>people are just a bunch of monkeys</I>. 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: </P> paulo@107: <P> 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: </P> paulo@107: <P> paulo@107: I try to expand on this thought on an paulo@107: <A HREF="cline.pdf">essay that accompanies this project</A>. paulo@107: Stress that again: <I>I try</I>. =D paulo@107: </P> paulo@107: <P> paulo@107: --Paulo Ang (<A HREF="mailto:pbba13@hotmail.com">pbba13@hotmail.com</A>) paulo@107: </P> paulo@107: <P> paulo@107: <A HREF="dance_monkeys.html">Back to "Dance, Monkeys, Dance"</A> paulo@107: </P> paulo@107: </DIV> paulo@107: paulo@107: <!-- html code generated by txt2tags 2.4 (http://txt2tags.sf.net) --> paulo@107: <!-- cmdline: txt2tags -t html -\-css-sugar -\-style=dmd.css dance_monkeys.t2t dance_monkeys_about.t2t dance_monkeys_text.t2t --> paulo@107: </BODY></HTML>