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leaving the resultant cripples to die a slow and lingering death.  When

the raids were over, five males and one elderly female had been

murdered.  The separatist group had been destroyed.  Its sexually

active females and part of its territory had been annexed by the males

of the band from the home turf.16

Jane Goodall had discovered war among the chimpanzees.  It

was a discovery she had hoped she would never make.17

Years later, biological ecologist Michael Ghiglieri traveled to

Uganda to see just how widespread chimpanzee warfare really was.

He concluded that "the happy-go-lucky chimpanzee has turned out to

be the most lethal ape--an organized, cooperative warrior...."18

So the tendency toward slaughter that manifested itself in the

Chinese Cultural Revolution is not the product of agriculture,

technology, television or materialism.  It is not an invention of either

western or eastern civilization.  In fact, it is not a uniquely human

proclivity at all.  It comes from something both sub and superhuman,

something we share with gorillas, apes, fish and ants--a brutality that

speaks to us through the animals in our brain.  If man has contributed

anything of his own to the equation, it is this: he has learned to dream

of peace.  But to achieve that dream, he will have to overcome what

nature has built into him.

  iends mercilessly, breaking bones, opening massive wounds, and

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leaving the resultant cripples to die a slow and lingering death.  When

the raids were over, five males and one elderly female had been

murdered.  The separatist group had been destroyed.  Its sexually

active females and part of its territory had been annexed by the males

of the band from the home turf.16

Jane Goodall had discovered war among the chimpanzees.  It

was a discovery she had hoped she would never make.17

Years later, biological ecologist Michael Ghiglieri traveled to

Uganda to see just how widespread chimpanzee warfare really was.

He concluded that "the happy-go-lucky chimpanzee has turned out to

be the most lethal ape--an organized, cooperative warrior...."18

So the tendency toward slaughter that manifested itself in the

Chinese Cultural Revolution is not the product of agriculture,

technology, television or materialism.  It is not an invention of either

western or eastern civilization.  In fact, it is not a uniquely human

proclivity at all.  It comes from something both sub and superhuman,

something we share with gorillas, apes, fish and ants--a brutality that

speaks to us through the animals in our brain.  If man has contributed

anything of his own to the equation, it is this: he has learned to dream

of peace.  But to achieve that dream, he will have to overcome what

nature has built into him.

  iends mercilessly, breaking bones, opening massive wounds, and