Posted on 08/25/2005 9:39:25 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
London Zoo exhibits humans From correspondents in London 26-08-2005 From: Agence France-Presse
LONDON Zoo unveiled a new exhibition overnight - eight humans prowling around wearing little more than fig leaves to cover their modesty. The "Human Zoo" is intended to show the basic nature of human beings as they frolic throughout Britain's August bank holiday weekend.
"We have set up this exhibit to highlight the spread of man as a plague species and to communicate the importance of man's place in the planet's ecosystem," London Zoo said.
The scantily-clad volunteers will be treated as animals and kept amused at the central London zoo with games and music.
"I actually think the fig leaves will be enough to cover us up, it's no worse than a swimming pool," said volunteer Simon Spiro, 19, from New Malden, south of the British capital.
Mr Spiro, selected from dozens of hopefuls in an internet competition, said he was excited by the prospect of monkeying around on the zoo's Bear Mountain.
"I'm a veterinary student so the idea of working for a zoo was something that appealed to me.
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Oh God!
Indeed. What grave hypocrisy it is to decry the problem without demonstrating commitment to the solution! ;-)
Seems to be.
Presented to the public with only fig leaves to protect their modesty, the humans will become an important feature of zoo life as they are cared for by our experienced keepers and kept entertained through various forms of enrichment.
The four day event aims to demonstrate the basic nature of man as an animal and examine the impact that Homo sapiens have on the rest of the animal kingdom.
Sometimes, It seems, the English and the Fench deserve each other.
AGENT SMITH
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I've realized that you are not actually mammals.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment. But you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area.
There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.
Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague. And we are... the cure.
I know the Wachowski brothers have earned some contempt for some of their imagery in the Matrix series, but this zing at the Gaea-worshipping wackos is one of my favorite speeches in the whole series. (For those not Matrix fans, Smith is the 'bad guy' who goes on from his apparent destruction in the first movie to attempt the extinction of all human and machine life in the second two through absorption into his own self. The ultimate egoist liberal, really.)
WTF?
Well, the monkeys are smarter and probably don't smell as bad.
In the 60's, when the phrase "let it all hang out" was big, my very proper grandmother's response was, "why should we want to let it all hang out? It's taken us centuries to tuck it all in." I'm thinking of grandma right now, tucking it in is definitely losing to the let it all hang out crowd.
I thought Survivor was a CBS show? What's it doing on the BBC?
"Sometimes, It seems, the English and the Fench deserve each other."
You've said a mouthful!
Podkayne, the little adventure gal from Heinlein's juvenile books?
Cool!
Cheers
It's just a more primitive form of Reality TV.
Hmmm, I knew there was a reason I didn't watch that stuff. My reality TV is more science based.
One of the participants has a blog...
http://elevenpointfive.blogspot.com/
-Eric
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