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Nah. Not terribly interested. |
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//Nope. Read Pierre Boulle's original novel La Planète des
singes (Planet of the Apes, 1963)// <link> |
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"humans tamed apes and eventually used them as servants.
As
apes learned to talk, a cerebral laziness took hold of the
humans" |
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So, ideocracy then, but with a sentient slave race /
sentient pets
ready &
waiting in our homes to supplant us (sounds like simple
domestication & largely indirect selective breeding was
what the author had in mind for his apes),
yep, I can see how
that'd work. |
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The only problem with that is the apes kicking us out of our
homes & competing with us directly would tend to counter
all the supposed root causes of the Ideocracy (our
comfortable technology supported lives), so
halting & likely reversing
the process. |
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So maybe the disease in the
latest
film in the franchise that knocks out the language
centre in the
human brain is more plausible. |
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//Nah. Not terribly interested// |
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A reasonable low brow romp perhaps, but I'd have to agree
its 'morale
conundrums' are silly childish sensationalist
misrepresentative drivel designed to pander
to the lowest common denominators among all the usual
suspects, a lot of its 'science' is pretty questionable too. |
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I was never that much of a fan of the Planet of the Apes
movies. I like my sci-fi's
somewhat technological and more traditional in letting the
good guys win. Maybe that's why I never really cared for
Jurassic Park? (No, I think in that case it was the horridly
repetitive music score). |
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I always liked the Jurassic Park films, but then the first one
came out when
I was still young enough that 'dinosaurs!' was all it took to get
me hooked, we do tend to stick with the things we loved as a
child, just look at the more recent iterations of Doctor Who
these days, bloody awful yet I
still give it the time of day out of some sort of misplaced
nostalgia :) |
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