To Help A Monkey

Main Message

 The human tendency to intervene in nature, prioritising innocence beings over predator, the moral question of control. Is helping right? Who suffers from hardships? Aim of control, navigating a dangerous unpredictable life while highlight the iron of human intervention in nature. 

Are human efforts to help selfish? 

Themes

The question of control + power/ opinion of if it helps 

Survival and Innocence 

Danger of being completive 

Risk of vulnerability 

Illusion of Control 

Facing Hardships – perseverance. 

Human imposing nature 

Competition systems – fair? 

Analytic Approach to life 

Survival of different odds, chances 

Value of life --> Intervention for better or worse?

Broader Concepts

The mistaken belief pf control and false security 

Manage natural chaos  to control the outcomes of life 

Allegory for schools? Modern Education/Institutions - Unnatural method of forcing a student into competitions 

Bias from empathy 

Interference with nature 

Survival 

Cooperation or Conflict 

Summary

A speaker watched a monkey navigate a predator filled river, doesn’t hunt it but uses a rifle to fire warning shots to the monkey to move faster and reach the other sider – water shots. 

Doesn’t kill predators but speed the monkey's journey, helping the creature showing humans intervention in nature may not be for the better. 

Monkey

Innocence, human fragility – forced to navigate tough situations 

River

Unpredictable dangerous and chaotic obstacles of life 

Rifle Speaker

 Human intervention, worth it? Tries to control outcome --> helps or makes it word? 

Predators

 Obstacles, natural dangers 

Fruits and Nuts

Needs for survival