I remember watching a gory episode on Discovery Channel in the 90s (there's a similar portion on National Geographic's "Planet Earth"). It was about a raiding party of chimpanzees attacking (and eating) a straggler from another troop -- a mother chimpanzee and its young. The last frame was poignant (ok, the music could have been a factor): close-up on one of the perpetrators' face -- looking innocent like a puppy -- fade to white -- it was like looking at ourselves.
Altamira . . . Lascaux . . . Art, Magic, Religion, War -- and haute cuisine -- all were hatched in the same caves -- probably by the same people . . . an ordinary grunt couldn't have conceived them . . .
War is people feeding on itself. Painting itself with the blood of its victims, wearing their victims' skins (trinkets, trinkets, souvenirs and the ethnic chic) -- giving them special power, special knowledge . . .
Art, Cuisine, Cannibalism (War) and Magic -- people who can paint, cook, eat you up and give you bullshit . . .
Fast forward to now . . . a group of vicious people, in a dark room furnished with the best that art and technology can produce, dining on the finest meats . . . deciding the fate of most of the world -- either through war or economic conquest or magic . . .
H.G. Wells gives a name to them -- Morlock -- the shepherds -- the wolves of the unsuspecting human flock (Eloi). Scripture names them the "False Shepherds."
Ad nauseam (now you don't).
Altamira . . . Lascaux . . . Art, Magic, Religion, War -- and haute cuisine -- all were hatched in the same caves -- probably by the same people . . . an ordinary grunt couldn't have conceived them . . .
War is people feeding on itself. Painting itself with the blood of its victims, wearing their victims' skins (trinkets, trinkets, souvenirs and the ethnic chic) -- giving them special power, special knowledge . . .
Art, Cuisine, Cannibalism (War) and Magic -- people who can paint, cook, eat you up and give you bullshit . . .
Fast forward to now . . . a group of vicious people, in a dark room furnished with the best that art and technology can produce, dining on the finest meats . . . deciding the fate of most of the world -- either through war or economic conquest or magic . . .
H.G. Wells gives a name to them -- Morlock -- the shepherds -- the wolves of the unsuspecting human flock (Eloi). Scripture names them the "False Shepherds."
Ad nauseam (now you don't).
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