I remember a meeting with college colleagues where one of them told me: “It is the monkey who is locked in the cage and not the human being”, referring to the superiority of human intelligence. At first glance, it is true that it is not us who are locked in a cage, it is the monkey constrained by our superiority. But, if we think about it carefully, we understand the ambiguity of this statement.
The monkey obeys nature. We obey our intelligence, which locks us in the cage of our knowledge. Intelligence was the source of human proliferation in just 300,000 years and the gigantic development of humanity in just a few thousand years to the detriment of all other species. She will probably also be responsible for his disappearance. Human intelligence has succeeded in producing overpopulation, pollution, highly destructive wars, resource depletion, climate change, desertification. Our apparent superiority over the monkey locks us in the cage of our knowledge, the result of which is the decline of life. Perhaps the monkey, from his metal cage, will witness the disappearance of humanity locked in the cage of his knowledge.
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