You know pachyderm sometimes I really wonder, how far have we really come?
I think about the fact that we are primates and how lower primates behave. They have a class system too. I watched the snow monkeys on that special called Life and how some of them were allowed to sit in the hot springs while others were not allowed and had to sit in the cold only to stare and that stare was so human like, that longing stare. And only the monkeys that were born into those monkeys that had permission to sit in the springs were allowed to enter.

Watching the chimpanzees our closest relatives that also have a class system, but it can be broken if one creates a new tool that others want to use too.

And the gorillas and the one gorilla that is king and leader and how the upcoming male gorillas challenge him for that position. Are we so far away from that? But they do treat their young better than us, they are nurtured and taught to function in that group. They do prize their young.

Are we nothing more than groups of primates all around the world that somehow will never get along, territorial and class, just more compicated, more tools? And not necessarily altogether different, oh I truely wonder sometimes.

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