And I got mad.
What the fuck right did that monkey have to throw his shit at me? What had I done to that monkey? It pissed me off even more when I saw the joyful glee on the monkey's face when he saw how mad I had gotten from having gotten shit all over my face.
I got even angrier at this and my rising anger only rose the monkey's ecstasy that much further.
I knew I was going to do something stupid, so I took a slow, deep breath.
I felt the stench of the fecal matter flowing through my nostrils, so I tried to breath in my mouth instead. While my mouth was open, the monkey threw shit at me again, and was right on target, successfully giving me a taste of his dinner last night.
Upon seeing the sharp precision of the monkey, the other monkeys praised him for his fantastic arm and laughed at me for tasting shit.
The rage in me was boiling to the point of destruction. I felt my capacitance exceeded. By far. But I remembered past experiences with monkeys. I knew that further display of anger would only egg on the monkey to continue throwing shit at me day after day to piss me off,
Display of humor would result in the other monkeys assuming that I was strange, "Who thinks it's funny to have shit thrown at them?" which would then result in me being the go-to guy if you were a monkey and wanted to throw shit at someone.
Retaliation was out of the question. The monkey was without a doubt stronger than me. Despite being a dumb monkey, it could still rip me apart limb from limb were I to throw shit back at him and be fortunate enough to have it land on his face. No, no no. This was a very stupid monkey. The type that found humor inflicting pain onto others but found no humor and grew angry when pain was inflicted upon him. This was a monkey who was too stupid to learn any type of lesson. No matter how hard one would try to teach it.
I chose to simply walk away. I walked away from all of their laughter and jabbing comments. I walked away from the jungle where the monkeys lived.
I walked and walked and walked until I finally found civilization, the land without monkeys.
There, I met many other men, smart men, who had been driven to civilization because they were just like me, too smart to ignore stupidity and too weak to do anything about it. They were happy to have escaped the monkeys, but were despondent about their pasts. It just seemed so wrong to allow a lowly creature like a monkey treat you that way.
Of course, some of the men I met in civilization had never come from the jungle, so all they felt for monkeys was compassion, pity, and empathy as they so-called it. "Oh those poor monkeys are so innocent and kind!" "Monkeys just want to have a little fun!" "I don't understand what people have against monkeys!" "Just give a monkey a chance!"
Had they ever done the latter? Most likely not. And if so, it was most probably done in a safe, controlled environment where absolutely nothing could go wrong. If something did go wrong, you could always pause and see a director of civilization. Yes. They can handle everything. No worries.
But What say you when you're on a plane that is about to crash and there is one parachute left that either you or a monkey can use, and if both of you use the parachute (As I know some of you were probably thinking), you both will fall to your death? Who lives, who dies? Some of us have a little more honesty than others when it comes to our answer.
Elitists they were. Men who, though they could make powerful mental computations, failed at understanding the fundamental animalistic nature of things as they are, as life is. When someone has done you wrong, as a man, do you expect others to avenge you? Nay, the only one who should inflict vengeance is the vengeful.
So me and the few other men who had originated from the jungles worked together to have our due compensation. The weapon mason created guns and crossbows, the engineer created bombs, the biologist made disease, the chemist created napalm, the businessman created one-sided negotiation, and I brought pure, biased hatred.
Back to the jungle we all went. The businessman first.
He entered the jungle unafraid of the monkeys because he saw them for what they were, which was poor, and had no respect for such things in life just as he had no respect for dirt. He told the monkeys he would pay them each 3 bananas to leave the jungle. The monkeys, as stupid as they were, knew that 3 bananas to leave their home was a joke so they all shit on the ground and flung their poop at the businessman. The businessman smiled and said he would be back later with the same offer and left.
The chemist and engineer set up a fence around the jungle with one entrance/exit and proceeded to burn and nuke the entire jungle to the ground. Thousands upon thousands of monkeys were slaughtered and the ones that ran out of the jungle with their fur on fire were shot by the weapon mason and I. The weapon mason and I saw many monkeys trying to run away, men, women, children, seniors, but allthesame, they were just stupid, shit-flinging monkeys. We laughed with joyful glee as we saw the stupid monkeys flocking in line for us to mow them all down one by one. Eventually the corpse pile in front of the entrance became too great for other living monkeys to make their way into our target sight, so the chemist came by and set them all aflame to clear the way so the other monkeys could have their fair share of bullets and arrows. Other monkeys thought they could be clever to jump over the fence, but were quickly electrocuted into smoldering heaps of flesh.
The next day, the businessman went back to the jungle. There was a total of 800 monkeys remaining and he made the same proposal to them. Their fur was singed from the flames of yesterday, their eyes looked sunken from having had no sleep. Yet, they still stubbornly refused to leave their homes and threw shit at the businessman again. He smiled once again, and said he would be back.
The biologist clapped his hands together in joy upon hearing of the businessman's return and proceeded to fire disease bombs across the remnants of the jungle. Monkeys began retching for air. Gasping as if something was constricting their throats. Some suffocated trying to get a breath of fresh air, others died from ripping out their throats to get that breath. The biologist and chemist smiled proudly at their work. How many monkeys have we killed? They asked. 10 thousand? 20 thousand? 50 thousand? A hundred? A million?!? A billion?!?! Who knows! The possibilities are endless!
Surely, no other chemists or biologists in the world can boast such a large number?
The next day, the businessman returned to the jungle with a gas mask. There were a total of 8 monkey's remaining. These were the most strong-willed of all the clan who had managed to outsmart, outwit, out maneuver, and out-live the biologist, the engineer, the chemist, the weapon mason and I. They looked like they had not eaten in days and not slept for about the same. They looked up to see the approaching businessman and though primal rage sparked in the eyes of some, they were all too weak and too tired, and their stomachs too empty and too withered to produce any type of shit to be thrown at the man.
The businessman offered the 8 remaining monkeys 3 bananas each to leave their homes. A slow silence fell upon the ground. Quietly one by one, all but 1 monkey stepped up to the businessman and took 3 big, delicious-looking bananas from his hand. After handing over the 7 monkeys their bananas, he turned to the 8th monkey and asked, "Why don't you take my offer? Surely as stupid as you are, as narrow-minded of a creature as you may be, you should know that there is nothing left here for you to live for or stay for. You will leave anyway, so why would you refuse my offer?"
The 8th monkey's scornful-looking eyes welled up with tears and though he was too tired and too weak, and his stomach too empty and too withered to produce shit to throw as retaliation, the monkey pulled out his hand instead, stuck up his middle finger and said, "Fuck you." to the businessman. Upon seeing this, the businessman smiled a smile brighter than any smile he had ever smiled during his previous two visits. After taking in a slow, deep breath of his surroundings, the businessman turned around and left. He did not tell the monkey that he would return this time.
So the 6 of us gathered in the aftermath and we looked around to see what we had done. All around us was nothing but pure chaos and destruction. All around us were nothing but endless bodies of monkeys laid out on the smoking, charred ground. There were still some sad signs of life remaining, but we were in the works of fixing that.
So up went the Supermall that the businessman had been planning to build since day 1. Up it went on top of what used to be a beautiful jungle that had once housed generations and generations of monkeys in it. Upon seeing his old home turned into an materialistic institution, the one monkey, who had managed to refuse everything up until that point: The napalm, the bullets, the disease, and the bananas, made no exception, and refused to accept what men had done to him. He roared out in pure, savage fury at what had happened to his home, his family, his friends. And the memories! Oh, they wouldn't even let him keep the memories! The grounds where his daughter was born, the tree where he had first met his wife when they were but chimps, and the sun. God, the beautiful sun did not even shine after the mall had been built, for there was too much concrete standing in the way. An impressive mall indeed.
What heartless people would do such a thing? What lifeless creatures could have been behind such an atrocity? What had the monkeys ever done to man? Why? Why? Why? The monkey screamed loudly at the world. At no one. He swore on his life that he would have retribution on those that had inflicted such pain on his soul or die trying. Not just for himself, but for everyone that wanted to, but could not. For the thousands that had died to the napalm and bombs, to the hundreds who died gasping desperately for another breath of air, another moment in life, and the 7 who had nothing left now but burnt fur and 3 big, delicious-looking bananas.
And so he died trying.
But the 6 of us could have cared less. What can one monkey do? Probably the same thing a whole clan of monkeys can do: Nothing.
We were sitting on top of fortune and power and 80 pseudo-hookers, and all it took was a little ingenuity and teamwork. Something the monkeys would never possess.
What is pity? What is remorse? Were we cowards for using such means to defeat those that had once defeated us? Or were we geniuses for finding a way to defeat that which was once undefeatable? We 6 may have overreacted in a sense, but whose fault was it that we had a vendetta against monkeys other than the monkeys for giving us reason to have a vendetta?
Were we monsters? What is a monster? One that does monstrous things such as massacring an entire colony of monkeys? Then I suppose the 6 of us are monsters. And damn proud ones at that. Some dream of becoming monsters, others attempt and only achieve lower levels of demon-hood, while the rest simply fail outright and have nothing better to do than go back to dreaming. We were 6 men who had our dreams and fantasies since we were young; since we had lived in the jungle. And we had made all of our respective dreams come true. By being men.
We had all come from the jungle and it was only through such training that we were able to realize man and monkey for their differences. Amongst men, respect is earned and manners are a given. Amongst monkeys, respect is demanded and manners are nonexistent. Such creatures, to think that they think themselves on equal level to man, truly foolish. Just because things look similar does not mean that they are. We may breath the same air, eat the same food, and shit the same shit, but at the end of the day, you're a monkey and I'm a man. You live in the jungle while I live in civilization. You may be physically strong, but what is strength? How much does one have to lift in order to be impervious to the bombs and disease that the people such as myself create? Man is the monkey's kryptonite, and for good reason.
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