Great apes
by Will Self
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How does the inversion of human and chimpanzee society challenge your initial assumptions about intelligence, civilization, and what it means to be "civilized"?
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If you woke up tomorrow in a world where your species was viewed as the psychiatric anomaly, how do you think you would cope with the gaslighting from authority figures trying to "cure" you?
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Will Self uses extreme satire to hold up a mirror to human behavior; which aspects of contemporary society or culture did you find most effectively—and perhaps uncomfortably—lampooned through the chimpanzee perspective?
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