funny article.. great stuff here made me laugh, but in some ways it made me think too.

Thanks MM, that's about what I'm about. Make you think, make you laugh.

Jythier, just so you know, all the things you've seen me write like what I'm about to write here are written by the guy that wrote that article you read on my blog.

When he had come upon the earth, the ape was naked and afraid. For comfort he picked up a stick, chewed the end to a point, and stuck it in a nearby living thing.
2 When the living thing died, transfixed by the stick, the ape ate of its flesh and soon conceived a great hunger for the death of other living things.
3 Thereupon the ape made many pointed sticks and stuck them into great multitudes of other living things, including, on occasion, other apes.

What you describe, we do to each other as well, and have throughout all of history.

I have a friend, that when he would see someone do something particularly stupid, he'd shake his head and despairingly say "...give a monkey a brain..."

From the link above:
Adam Jones explains, in his book Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, that people throughout history have always had the ability to see other groups as alien, he quotes Chalk and Jonassohn: "Historically and anthropologically peoples have always had a name for themselves. In a great many cases, that name meant 'the people' to set the owners of that name off against all other people who were considered of lesser quality in some way. If the differences between the people and some other society were particularly large in terms of religion, language, manners, customs, and so on, then such others were seen as less than fully human: pagans, savages, or even animals.

There's at least one community of chimpanzees that hunts with weapons, albeit extremely primitive ones, and there's a strong argument to suggest that chimps from different areas have social and cultural differences, suggesting they aren't governed solely by instinct.

As it stands chimps are already surprisingly like humans. It's probably just a matter of time before they become very like us.

We are of the same stock, after all, so really all those speech lessons are just reducing the cultural gap.

I thought about laughing.

... er... thanks, Mason? I think?