These #PlanetoftheApes @ApesMovies @ApesMoviesUK make one wonder ... #SPOILERS (#SPOILERALERT #SPOILERWARNING #SPOILER etc.) #Apes #Ape
I'm watching Escape from the Planet of the Apes–in which ...
You remember the Charleton Heston movie Planet of the Apes (which Tamara Hadn't Seen), with Heston as astronaut-George Taylor—who crash-lands on what-he-thinks-is-a-distant-planet inhabited by an ape-like species, only to find out (in a twist-ending) that in fact the spacecraft was redirected back to Earth during his centuuries-long hypersleep—Earth had been taken-over by its apes (who had evolved high intelligence).I didn't see Beneath the Planet of the Apes, so I was a little puzzled when Cornelius explained how dumb apes we know today had been taken as pets when humans' dogs & cats had to be euthanized, had been used for slave-labor (house-work, yard-work, grocery-shopping, cooking) and had revolted against that slavery—forcing humans to devolve into 'the lower species.' (The apes of the first movie had denied that apes were ever anything less than the high intellegensia they had become.)
Cornelius then goes on to differentiate between different types of apes—specifically Chimpanzees (which are pacifists, as opposed to) Gorillas and Orangutans (whose war probably destroyed the planet ... I haven't watched the whole movie yet), with "Monkey" being "an offensive term"—probably like a lot of today's "racist slurs" we Crackers can no longer use (not safely) in reference assorted other Ethnicities ('Cracker' being the one that only whites should use when referring to Whites, just like Blacks have one that only they should use, like Latinos, Asians, Native Americans-etc.)
But 'the non-offensive word' is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which the our lexicon stands ...
The word “Apes” is built on Foundations that Zoologists applied to the “|Simian, Tail-less, Man-|like Monkey” (also used in assorted Slang for |Crazy, |Mad (probably from the animals' habit of |Flinging |Excrement at each other (i.e. #apeshit) when Angry)).
I'm not yet "anxious to see" Conquest of the Planet of the Apes or Battle for the Planet of the Apes or any of the other sequels or reboots or TV-series, but I imagine I'll catch most of them eventually....
Or maybe I'm looking at it wrong—that's one reason
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
Our Father God said "It is not good for the man to be
alone": "Because the man'll think he's right until someone else shows
him why he's not"—Won't you show me
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
if I'm right-or-wrong in the comments below?
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