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• Is there a more sophisticated expression of the Monkeysphere? I wonder whether it has any academic basis and whether there is any significance behind the idea of having such a limited sense of humanity.
• Vista == OS X. Oh, Apple.
• Art gives you catharsis. That's sort of spiritual in a secular way?

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[mklip2001]

I really like the idea of the Monkeysphere. (I also really like the way it was written in that article, but that may be because I've read some rather boring passages lately on Wikipedia.) I'm not sure how one can make it scientific, but I think it's an evolutionary-plausible theory. People have, as a species, pretty much made themselves no longer subject to Darwinian evolution, and thus modern man still has certain traits that were more suited to early Cro-Magnon and such. One of those traits could easily be loyalty to only a small, local tribe. Maybe we're not really designed, in an evolutionary sense, to have covered as large a portion of Earth as we have and to populate this much.

I really like the mention the author made about religions putting a personal touch on God. It makes one wonder if, outside of the Monkeysphere, we only remain moral by making codes for ourselves to follow, such as the Golden Rule and moral codes of several different belief systems.