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The moment you have two primates and a banana, you're going to get politics.
by kabdib 13y ago
The moment you have two primates and a banana, you're going to get politics.
- stcredzero 13y agoIf the two primates are bonobos, the usual result is sex.
- Pxtl 13y agoWhich is still politics.
- stcredzero 13y agoIndeed. Didn't one noble in the 30 years war switch sides at what amounts to the prompting of his girlfriend?
- amirmc 13y agoAnd the form of that politics will vary. c.f. Two wolves and a sheep deciding on what to have for dinner.
- lukifer 13y agoI love this analogy, but the funny thing is that it works both ways: whatever a wolf and two sheep might vote on for dinner, it's not gonna be sheep (or even wolf). Hence, it is the wolves and not the sheep who usually have the greater resentment for democracy.
- cpeterso 13y agoPolitics requires at least three people. With only two people, there is no us-vs-them.
- wpietri 13y agoFor those who would like to know more about this, I can't recommend De Waal's Chimpanzee Politics enough. I read this as a young nerd and suddenly people made a lot more sense to me. First things about society (especially companies). Then things about individual people. And, most recently, things about myself.