<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # That may be the most obscene fact of all. The... > That may be the most obscene fact of all. {{The savage is not buried beneath the human being like a fossil waiting to be excavated under extraordinary circumstances. The savage is included in the human being. It sits at dinner. It kisses children goodnight. It runs corporations. It attends church. It earns graduate degrees. It quotes poetry. It posts photographs of sunsets. It says _I love you_, and means it.}} And under{Under{ sufficient pressures of humiliation, scarcity, jealousy, fear, status, opportunity or power, some fraction of the beautifully acculturated animals will do things the rest of the beautifully acculturated animals will solemnly describe, on camera, as unimaginable.}} {{The monster does not live beneath civilization. The monster goes to work every morning and participates in it.}} **Source:** [[books/Chimping Out|Chimping Out]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “That may be the most obscene fact of all. The savage is not buried beneath the human being like a fossil waiting to be excavated under extraordinary circumstances. The savage is included in the human being. It sits at dinner. It kisses children goodnight. It runs corporations. It attends church. It earns graduate degrees. It quotes poetry. It posts photographs of sunsets. It says I love you, and means it. And under sufficient pressures of humiliation, scarcity, jealousy, fear, status, opportunity or power, some fraction of the beautifully acculturated animals will do things the rest of the beautifully acculturated animals will solemnly describe, on camera, as unimaginable. The monster does not live beneath civilization. The monster goes to work every morning and participates in it.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-most-obscene-fact-every-morning-participates ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->