tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post4224303268083019818..comments2023-09-25T04:26:51.568-06:00Comments on The Barefoot Bum: ZeitgeistLarry Hamelinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28755195.post-15422051452251024652008-03-17T09:41:00.000-06:002008-03-17T09:41:00.000-06:00Dear Bum, even a penguin can tell you that a troop...Dear Bum, even a penguin can tell you that a troop of hairless plains apes will follow their leaders pretty much everywhere. It isn't a matter of "choice", it's biology. That's how plains apes are wired -- to follow an alpha male, to throw feces at members of other troops of hairless plains apes (or spears, or .237 rifle rounds, or bombs, it's all feces in the end being thrown at "other", where the plains ape is wired to believe that any who are part of "other" are enemy and thus <I>deserve</I> to have feces thrown at them), etc.<BR/><BR/>Some plains apes figured out a way to manipulate that biological instinct to enrich themselves? Well, duh. We're talking monkeys, after all. Jumped up monkeys with big brains and delusions of grandeur, but it's monkeys all the way down, in the end. And the occasional penguin, but penguins have little influence upon monkeys. The truth may set you free, but lies, ah, cool soothing lies, the lies of patriotism and religion and so forth, what glorious lies, why would a monkey believe the cold harsh truth of his monkey nature when he has such glorious lies to believe? That would expecting rather much of a monkey, this penguin thinks...<BR/><BR/>-- Badtux the Penguin in a Time of MonkeysBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.com