> Well, strip away the Emperor's clothes, whether USA-American or UK-er
> (when
> the hell did this awful lingo break in?) and you have:
>
> PRIMATE STATUS CODES
What do you mean *Primate* Status Codes, moosh, think they're all the same,
but? What we have is barely a step above the noyeau system, as evinced by
silverbacked gorillas who prance around the edge of their territory beating
their chests with their fists and screaming insults at each other.
Chimpanzees long ago learned to co-operate, and as for gibbons -- beats me
how they can bear to share the same planet with only semi-evolved homo saps.
"The human race is one that we'll not win"
R.
> yes, folks, it's all the way back to the Stone Age for a free peer into
> the
> tribal stream, because underneath it all Neolithic Ape-Persons is Wot We
> Are, still hard-wired for clan-groups of about 120-180 people, and capable
> of using anything, be it a Stealth bomber or a Language and all its
> Trappings of Power with all the Gentle Persuasive Pow'rs of a hand-axe. So
> doing the Large Society Thing don't come easy to us, especially when that
> most aphrodisiac asset is concerned: p-p-power.
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