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of the domesticated primates of Terra did not know they
were primates. They thought they were something apart from and "superior"
to the rest of the planet.... Benny had actually read Darwin once, in
college a long time ago, and had heard of sciences like ethology and ecology,
but the facts of evolution had never really registered on him. He never
thought of himself as a primate. He never realized his friends and associates
were primates. Above all, he never understood that the alpha males of
Unistat were typical leaders of primate bands. As a result of this inability
to see the obvious, Benny was constantly alarmed and terrified by the
behavior of himself, his friends and associates and especially the alpha
males of the pack. Since he didn't know it was ordinary primate behavior,
it seemed just awful to him.
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from Robert Anton Wilson's Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy

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