There's really not too much to add except that yes, I think it's pretty much correct.  Yes, the article's style is beyond whimsical, but fundamentally it says quite a bit.

What do you think?

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It's true, of course, and not exactly a groundbreaking idea. We're all familiar with the fact that if Mommy Dearest died, it'd be a bigger deal than if a couple thousand people died of some epidemic in Western Samoa or whatever. There's a degree of seperation that turns entire lives into background noise, there's just no way a mind can process every single person as significant, not truly.

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i'm a rainbow too.

But... how do we overcome the monkeysphere? He's right, the problem is that in order to function, society must force us to integrate and cooperate with groups larger than we can really comprehend. The base solution, I suppose, is to remind ourselves that every monkey, even those outside of our spheres, as just as much monkeys as all the others, and just as deserving of our fairness.

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Make love, not traffic.

Although i never consider such a thing in depth, or using monkies  i can see a lot of truth in that, his conclusions i've, for most part already concluded during primary school.

As stalin says "1 death is a trajedy - a million is a statistic"

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The truth is what money can be made from a lie.