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The Human Zoo (1969)

by Desmond Morris

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This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.
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Cool. Now I can look at humans like the animals they are, caged animals to be precise.
This book is copium for incels. ( )
  Sebuktegin | May 25, 2021 |
In The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris took a brutally objective look at the human animal -- his sexual habits, his aggressions, his affections and emotions. Now, in The Human Zoo, he presents an authoritative, fiercely frank and brilliantly entertaining study of the society the naked ape has created for himself; and examines the neurotic, unstable behaviour that has resulted from man's unnatural confinement in crowded cities -- murders, sexual deviations and psychological disorders.
If man is to survive, and turn his environment into a magnificent game park, he must learn the new, and sometimes difficult, rules of the human zoo.
  rajendran | Feb 20, 2007 |
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Under normal conditions, in their natural habitats, wild animals do not mutilate themselves, masturbate, attack their offspring, develop stomach ulcers, become fetishists, suffer form obesity, form homosexual pair-bonds, or commit murder ... The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

And more than likely, you, the reader, are one of the animals on display. Think not? Read on. And prepare to lose your illusions.
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