Well, my first ever article was about whether farmer monkeys or attack monkeys are better. I remembered the argument in my head yesterday and thought I would go further into detail with it. First of all, farmer monkeys are far better than attack monkeys.
Monkeys are well known to be able to wield tools, but how far could we take this? Already there have been attack monkeys able to hold daggers and attack each other, and recently I have seen some monkey-picked tea. So both sorts of monkey exist, but why are farmers better?
What makes the farmer monkey is better is that they can farm food to feed themselves and other monkeys, and the only payment they would want would be bananas, which they grow themselves! All attack monkeys can do is attack, and not clever attack either, just “Kill! Kill! Kill!!!”. But the best thing about farmer monkeys has yet to come.
Before the Great Wall of China, much of the Chinese army disappeared, so along with the wall they had to build a new army to protect themselves. Most of the gathered people were farmers, so a great general created a new style of combat, using common farming methods and turning them into attacks. So, if you replace the Chinese people mentioned with monkeys, you have an army of Farmer/Attack Monkeys!
So, monkeys have a lot of potential in my head, not that any of it will be fulfilled, but I like to think of the monkey future. You could have a whole society of Monkeys, the farmers farming the bananas, the currency would be bananas, the farmers would take a cut of the bananas, and the rest would go to paying the worker monkeys. The worker monkeys would do all the jobs serving the civilian monkeys, the attack monkeys could be the monkey army. I think with enough work all of this could be done, I don’t see much point in it, but as I said before, it would be a bright future.
Humans would have to control the monkeys though, they could not get any more powerful or they could take over, they could reduce us to the worker monkeys while they sat in their ivory towers, so it is not a good idea at all really, but I think it would be a good idea to make a prequel to “Planet of the Apes” to see all this done.
