Earthmonkey... seen from a new light

You may have a list of rationalizations as long as a porn star's beefhorn for doing it, but the truth is that in our monkey brains the old woman next door is a human being while the cable company is a big, cold, faceless machine. That the company is, in reality, nothing but a group of people every bit as human as the old lady, or that some kind old ladies actually work there and would lose their jobs if enough cable were stolen, rarely occurs to us.

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That really annoying person you know, the one who's always spouting bullshit, the person who always thinks they're right? Well, the odds are that for somebody else, you're that person.

Guilty as charged. So is the author.



Trapped in Strange Loops here, aren't we.



Oh, well. Make the most of it.



The author's got it just about all right.



Read.



Postscript: The 150 people mentioned in

article is called Dunbar's number.



Thanks to Rick White for pointing that out.