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leaving the resultant cripples to die a slow and lingering death. When
the raids were over, five males and one elderly female had been
murdered. The separatist group had been destroyed. Its sexually
active females and part of its territory had been annexed by the males
of the band from the home turf.16
Jane Goodall had discovered war among the chimpanzees. It
was a discovery she had hoped she would never make.17
Years later, biological ecologist Michael Ghiglieri traveled to
Uganda to see just how widespread chimpanzee warfare really was.
He concluded that "the happy-go-lucky chimpanzee has turned out to
be the most lethal ape--an organized, cooperative warrior...."18
So the tendency toward slaughter that manifested itself in the
Chinese Cultural Revolution is not the product of agriculture,
technology, television or materialism. It is not an invention of either
western or eastern civilization. In fact, it is not a uniquely human
proclivity at all. It comes from something both sub and superhuman,
something we share with gorillas, apes, fish and ants--a brutality that
speaks to us through the animals in our brain. If man has contributed
anything of his own to the equation, it is this: he has learned to dream
of peace. But to achieve that dream, he will have to overcome what
nature has built into him.
iends mercilessly, breaking bones, opening massive wounds, and
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leaving the resultant cripples to die a slow and lingering death. When
the raids were over, five males and one elderly female had been
murdered. The separatist group had been destroyed. Its sexually
active females and part of its territory had been annexed by the males
of the band from the home turf.16
Jane Goodall had discovered war among the chimpanzees. It
was a discovery she had hoped she would never make.17
Years later, biological ecologist Michael Ghiglieri traveled to
Uganda to see just how widespread chimpanzee warfare really was.
He concluded that "the happy-go-lucky chimpanzee has turned out to
be the most lethal ape--an organized, cooperative warrior...."18
So the tendency toward slaughter that manifested itself in the
Chinese Cultural Revolution is not the product of agriculture,
technology, television or materialism. It is not an invention of either
western or eastern civilization. In fact, it is not a uniquely human
proclivity at all. It comes from something both sub and superhuman,
something we share with gorillas, apes, fish and ants--a brutality that
speaks to us through the animals in our brain. If man has contributed
anything of his own to the equation, it is this: he has learned to dream
of peace. But to achieve that dream, he will have to overcome what
nature has built into him.
iends mercilessly, breaking bones, opening massive wounds, and
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