Make love, not war... and then some more love!
It was one of the most satisfying moments of time-travelling – in the relatively inviolate verdancy of the glowing green forests of Congo on a bright evening in 1929, pitied the 21st century civilisation’s misplaced
pride in its superficial prowess while it found little thought to spare for all that’s unadorned, and yet beautiful. Suddenly, shaking me out of my reverential reverie was a familiar shadow… It’s the Bonobo!
Known to man only as late as 1928, Bonobos are the pride of primates who lead an exemplar life that has for a motto “make love, not war.” More closely related to humans than they are to gorillas even, it is but an irony that man chose to go the way of the chimpanzees – thankfully with a dash of restraint – instead of close cousins, bonobos. The former, always homicidal, sometimes genocidal while the latter, Gandhian at best and a hippie at worst! Bonobos are sexual beings. Period. From hetero to metro, bi to tri, their encounters, both with the same and the opposite sex, serve as a way of bonding and peace… and all of life itself.
Highly compassionate and conscious beings, the Bonobo society can best be described as peaceful, egalitarian and matriarchal. But their benign bacchanalia seems to come to no defence, as the species are being ruthlessly ravaged, both for the bush meat trade and the pet market. These smitten simians are, however, worth a lot more for mankind, for if we are to give up the straitjacket of false morality and go the Bonobo way, perhaps we could actually realise Eden as it should always have been.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006, Editor - Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
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It was one of the most satisfying moments of time-travelling – in the relatively inviolate verdancy of the glowing green forests of Congo on a bright evening in 1929, pitied the 21st century civilisation’s misplaced
pride in its superficial prowess while it found little thought to spare for all that’s unadorned, and yet beautiful. Suddenly, shaking me out of my reverential reverie was a familiar shadow… It’s the Bonobo!Known to man only as late as 1928, Bonobos are the pride of primates who lead an exemplar life that has for a motto “make love, not war.” More closely related to humans than they are to gorillas even, it is but an irony that man chose to go the way of the chimpanzees – thankfully with a dash of restraint – instead of close cousins, bonobos. The former, always homicidal, sometimes genocidal while the latter, Gandhian at best and a hippie at worst! Bonobos are sexual beings. Period. From hetero to metro, bi to tri, their encounters, both with the same and the opposite sex, serve as a way of bonding and peace… and all of life itself.
Highly compassionate and conscious beings, the Bonobo society can best be described as peaceful, egalitarian and matriarchal. But their benign bacchanalia seems to come to no defence, as the species are being ruthlessly ravaged, both for the bush meat trade and the pet market. These smitten simians are, however, worth a lot more for mankind, for if we are to give up the straitjacket of false morality and go the Bonobo way, perhaps we could actually realise Eden as it should always have been.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006, Editor - Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri
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