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The Naked Ape-Part 2
2007-03-14 13:00:00 After I wrote “The Naked Ape-Revisited” I received the following comment from Deb: “You forgot to mention man is the ONLY being that separates geographically, skin colour etc. Neither dogs nor cockroaches are that stupid.” For once, I have to disagree with Deb. I think that man behaves exactlythe same way as these backwards critters, and that ...
The Naked Ape?Re-visited
2007-03-09 12:56:02 Man is the most arrogant being in the Universe, and this sentence proves it. Given that the extent of man’s exploration of the Universe is our home planet, two acres on the moon and parts of New Jersey, it takes quite an ego to presume that, of all the sentient creatures that are, likely, floating around the cosmos, we are the best, the brightest, and the most arrogant. On a global level, because we’re not yet operating on a universal level or, even, a galactic level, we presume to distance ourselves from the co-habitants of our planet, by “civilizing” ourselves. Man, while arrogant, still has a little tiny inferiority complex, and I’m not referring to the one that manifests itself during the mating ritual. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, (see my letters to George Bush) man can not get past the idea that he is simply “different” from cats and dogs and cockroaches (in spite of the fact that the latter may be one of the most succes... |
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