ive been up to my eyeballs lately in literature on primates, and it makes humans look weird. We're floating in this tiny little insulated ball of peace when it seems like all of reality was built out of lil biological machines screaming and killing each other so they can fuck
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So essentially they're stuck in a primal version of 16-25 year old human young adulthood?
I had friends that spent most of their free time in their early 20s fighting and fucking inside and outside of various nightclubs.
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no, worse. depending on the primate species, ofc. Like half of all orangutan sex is rape, most gorillas experience the murder of an infant, chimpanzees regularly beat the shit out of their females so they're too scared to resist sex, spider monkeys have collective male domination
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Essentially, this scene from 'Fear and Loathing'.
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there were these primates that made weird sounds. all the other primates couldn't help but sit around to listen. the sounds they made were like a dream, but brighter. they were just like us, but different, free. it felt so good to be around them. then they realized: they were us.
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I'm always annoyed whenever people imply that humans are uniquely violent animals. We may have more sophisticated weapons but the natural world is exceedingly violent. The surprising thing is not that people kill but that we have created a society where killing is a last resort.
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It’s like we want our own reality to always be a little bit more complex and smarter than we are.
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About half of the human experience can be explained by the fact that we are primates with a gender size disparity of females being 80% that size of males.
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Ideas are the only walls we have against becoming just like the animals around us.
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