The amazing clip shows the primate holding a smartphone in one hand and clicking on the screen with another. …
When he gets bored, he goes back and clicks on a video of men playing with a snake.
The ape seems to get disinterested quicker this time and soon clicks on another video of a monkey and a human.
(Daily Star, April 25, 2019)
You probably think this is cute. It’s not.
For starters, this ape is only, er, aping the way humans spend so much time wasting their brains away. All it has to do now is master the narcissistic trick of taking selfies to look as dumb as so many humans do these days.
Ultimately, though, this viral clip shows what portends for the human race: evolutionary regression back to the Australopithecus-afarensis state of consciousness from whence we evolved.
That said, I’ll spare you my diatribe on the anthropomorphic cruelty inherent in domesticating this ape to ape the worst of human traits.
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