ichneumon
14th March 2007, 03:57
this is intended to light-hearted, though it may engender some resentment. feel free.
in my mind, the root cause of fundamentalist rejection of evolution lies in the idea of humans and apes being related. they hate this idea. when rev. haggard (mr. rentboy) threw dawkins out of his ranch, he said "you called my children animals." this is inane, of course, humans are animals, i would never find that insulting.
BUT...it seems that most people still do. humans don't like being called "monkeys" (i'm aware that monkeys are technically tailed primates that are not prosimians, get past it). "you animal" is stil an insult. yet, paradoxically, we says things are "inhuman" to describe acts such as serial murder, torture and child prostitution, which animals simply do not do.
to me, this comes down to identity politics, via the gay rights movement. i learned it in Queer Nation, and it serves me well. i'm a human, a monkey, an animal and an ape and I LIKE IT. apes are cool as shit and i love the fact that i share most of my DNA with them. can you read this link on bonobos (http://www.geocities.com/willc7/bonobos.html) and not love them? what do you want to be, a chicken? a computer? bluck. and frankly "you're acting like a faggot" doesn't insult me either - what the hell am i supposed to act like?
i'm suggesting that you come out of the evolutionary closet and embrace your simian-hood. get naked, look in the mirror and look at a picture of a chimp. see the family resemblence. pick your nose and scratch your ass. LAUGH about it. woo-woo-HOO YEEK! now go have a banana - good monkey!
in my mind, the root cause of fundamentalist rejection of evolution lies in the idea of humans and apes being related. they hate this idea. when rev. haggard (mr. rentboy) threw dawkins out of his ranch, he said "you called my children animals." this is inane, of course, humans are animals, i would never find that insulting.
BUT...it seems that most people still do. humans don't like being called "monkeys" (i'm aware that monkeys are technically tailed primates that are not prosimians, get past it). "you animal" is stil an insult. yet, paradoxically, we says things are "inhuman" to describe acts such as serial murder, torture and child prostitution, which animals simply do not do.
to me, this comes down to identity politics, via the gay rights movement. i learned it in Queer Nation, and it serves me well. i'm a human, a monkey, an animal and an ape and I LIKE IT. apes are cool as shit and i love the fact that i share most of my DNA with them. can you read this link on bonobos (http://www.geocities.com/willc7/bonobos.html) and not love them? what do you want to be, a chicken? a computer? bluck. and frankly "you're acting like a faggot" doesn't insult me either - what the hell am i supposed to act like?
i'm suggesting that you come out of the evolutionary closet and embrace your simian-hood. get naked, look in the mirror and look at a picture of a chimp. see the family resemblence. pick your nose and scratch your ass. LAUGH about it. woo-woo-HOO YEEK! now go have a banana - good monkey!