Nature has given chimpanzees untold chances over millions of years to tame fire. If they were mentally capable, they would have done so already.
It was an animated movie — Madagascar? — where the zoo inhabitants are set free and the monkeys (OK, OK, macaques, not Pan Troglodytes) are discussing where they will go.
The alpha male, given the affected voice of a “public intellectual” asserts that they will head over to Lincoln Center to hear a lecture by author Tom Wolfe. “Can we throw poo?” “Of course,” answers their stuffed-shirt leader, “We are monkeys!”
Nature has given chimpanzees untold chances over millions of years to tame fire. If they were mentally capable, they would have done so already.
It was an animated movie — Madagascar? — where the zoo inhabitants are set free and the monkeys (OK, OK, macaques, not Pan Troglodytes) are discussing where they will go.
The alpha male, given the affected voice of a “public intellectual” asserts that they will head over to Lincoln Center to hear a lecture by author Tom Wolfe. “Can we throw poo?” “Of course,” answers their stuffed-shirt leader, “We are monkeys!”