The Discovery of Ignorance

Even though we keep them caged, we are moved by their self-regard and lack of inhibition.

Look into the eyes of a great ape and you will see no signs of ignorance. They've been around at least six million years. We've been around 70,000 since Adam and Eve started stealing apples from baboons. They learned a lot during those six million years but they never learned ignorance which we discovered through the process of continual gossip only 700 years ago as our brains continued to shrink and we started to believe in our own fiction.

We became marks for our own gimmick. Marion Morrison belived he was John Wayne. Frances Gumm believed she was Judy Garland.

The gossip continued to grow as we attacked our own significance. As we discovered and admitted ignorance in the ironic Age of Enlightenment we began to believe that first the round Earth and then the fireball sun and now the milky galaxy were not the centers of the universe.  Stars were aound all the time not just at night and they were all much bigger than our blue marble. We also came up with the idea that 6 million years ago one female great ape gave birth to two daughters one of those daughters became the ancestoral NaNa of all chimpanzees. . The other daughter was Adam and Eve's original Gammy.

We could no longer completely separate ourselves from animals. Many of us didn't care for that especially the ape part so we do what we always do. We started killing the apes and if it hadn't been for Sigourney Weaver and Jane Goodall we might have gotten rid of them.

Just to be sure they'll survive, we put a few in cages around the world, where we can check them out and be amazed.