inside the monkeysphere

Courtesy (if that's the word ;> ) of pjack, I have been pointed at this essay on the practical effects of being part of a species that has a limitation on the number of people that one can meaningfully interact with on an ongoing basis:

http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/monkeysphere.html

Not necessarily original, and certainly somewhat tongue-in-cheek at times (I wonder if Chuck Norris knows that one of Josef Stalin's quotes is being attributed to him?), but an interesting read.