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We are the stories we tell ourselves (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.

— Sir Terry Pratchett, The Globe (The Science of Discworld, #2), 2002

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks, I had to think of this one too.

GNU Terry Pratchett

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