"Sunday" TV1, primate section?

**oldrider** · 20th September 2010, 09:49

Did the "Sunday" programme section on primate behaviour strike a cord on depressed human behaviours perhaps?

Acceptable human behaviour according to societies and religious rules seem to me to be two tiered or more depending on the individual.

For instance, we are the person we present to others, while underneath there lurks the person we are, while even more distant lies the person we would like to be!

The primates in the TV excerpt on Sunday were completely free to express themselves and behave exactly as they wanted to, apparently totally unconstrained!

Is there a lesson to be learned from these primates?

Are humans suffering under a strain of suppression of natural behaviour and desires, can this be the root cause of some of mankind's murky social problems?

Comparing the monkey society and our human society, it was patently obvious which one had the least hangups and need for antidepressants!

Food for thought?

**Ronin** · 20th September 2010, 10:04

It's simple really. Chimps don't have religion.

**scissorhands** · 20th September 2010, 10:41

Or wowsers.

I wonder if they have STD's?

**marie_speeds** · 20th September 2010, 10:50

We are programmed from any early age to confrom to society. Hmmm running wild and naked in a jungle.....

**mashman** · 20th September 2010, 11:40

I did catch some of it... can't remember what the species of primate was though... I did note that it was a matriarchal society and they had sex for fun

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**avgas** · 20th September 2010, 11:42

The congo should send their apes here.
Every other country is.

**F5 Dave** · 20th September 2010, 12:23

Yeah, that's what we really want.

A whole lot of muppets no longer constrained by the rules that society evokes, doing whatever the hell they want.

**Ronin** · 20th September 2010, 12:32

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Yeah, that's what we really want.

A whole lot of muppets no longer constrained by the rules that society evokes, doing whatever the hell they want.

But chimps don't ride... Oh wait.

**avgas** · 20th September 2010, 12:53

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Yeah, that's what we really want.

A whole lot of muppets no longer constrained by the rules that society evokes, doing whatever the hell they want.

120 too many?

**phill-k** · 20th September 2010, 13:03

imagine the sociological effect on all the ugly and over 20 women out there though

**oldrider** · 20th September 2010, 14:24

Originally Posted by phill-k

imagine the sociological effect on all the ugly and over 20 women out there though

You couldn't get much uglier than all those apes that were in the program and they seemed un-phased by it all and they were just going for it!

**admenk** · 20th September 2010, 15:05

Originally Posted by Ronin

It's simple really. Chimps don't have religion.

How do you know ?

**Ghost_Bullet** · 20th September 2010, 15:34

Makes bloody good sense, we are all mental, and because there is forever more and more rules and expectations putting preasure on our exsistance.

The trouble is though as someone else has said.. "Muppets" and there are fucking heap of them.
It would interesting to throw a couple of thousand people in a control environment of non control... hell to be a fly on the wall... or to even be in it.

**neels** · 20th September 2010, 15:38

Humans are just monkeys in shoes

**PrincessBandit** · 21st September 2010, 20:20

Originally Posted by mashman

I did catch some of it... can't remember what the species of primate was though... I did note that it was a matriarchal society and they had sex for fun

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Bonobos. Girls rule.