Insulting Semians and Iconoclastic Pachyderms

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Monkeys for millennia have tried to insult

elephants. No elephant yet, have felt insulted.

Maybe it's because they don't speak the same

language. Maybe because they don't share the

same values. Maybe because they see things

differently.

 

Monkeys see trees as things to climb, pachyderms,

as things to tear down. That monkeys resent being

rudely disturbed by a muscular earthquake have never

enter an elephant's brain. Call it insensitive

to the right of the meek. The way of the powerful

is to abuse the defenseless. The hungry has the

right to be callous, the powerless the duty to

be food, or so predators think.

 

It's a sad ancient story that still goes on in

the language world. Your beliefs are trees,

your feelings are monkeys, and if you don't understand

words, your monkeys will get hurt when an elephant leans

against the beliefs you held.