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Originally posted by Trepidation_Mom
New York story.
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Egad. Desmond Morris did a PBS-type thing about zoological study of human behavior. One of the things he did was compare human interaction and etiquette in an African village of, say, 50 people to the same behaviors in Manhattan. He concluded that the only way humans can deal with that level of population density was to ignore the presence of other humans. To a person walking the streets of Manhattan, other people are merely trees; i.e., obstructions to navigation, albeit moving ones.
You should have punched that tree right in the nuts.
ETA: I remember Morris's central thesis was that humans evolved in bands of 150 or fewer, and our social behaviors, whether in Africa or Manhattan, are designed to keep the number of people with whom we interact to around that number. Savages indeed. Sadly, I can't find the program on DVD anywhere, but the books are widely available, starting with
The Naked Ape.
