King Kong and Primatologists
I have been reading Our Inner Ape by De Wall a primatologist. His thinking is that we have two inner apes a chimpanzee one and a bonobo one. Chimpanzees deal with power in their society through aggression much to the chagrin of Rouseau while bonobos deal with the power struggle through sex.
In King Kong, we see both of our primal behaviors that we have according to De Wall in full play. We have the ape's romance which exhibits bonobo's behavior ( essentially he is being so inclusive with power he is admitting a human into apedom through sex.
But at the sametime we see that he is aggressive to all other humans which is our inner chimpanzee.
There are two kinds of societal behaviors: one, HE (heirachy enforcive and two HA (heirachy attenuative)
And then there is Ms. Naomi MIlls- after all the purpose of this is to rediscover our inner ape but maybe she has gone to far
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