Primatologist Jane Goodall Shared Desire to Launch Musk and Trump on One-Way Trip to Space
After devoting her life studying chimpanzee behavior, Jane Goodall became an expert on the combative nature of dominant males. In a freshly unveiled interview filmed shortly before her death, the famous primatologist shared her unique solution for handling specific people she viewed as displaying similar traits: sending them on a one-way journey into space.
Legacy Interview Discloses Honest Views
This notable viewpoint into Goodall's thinking emerges from the Netflix production "Final Words", which was filmed in March and maintained private until after her recently announced passing at the age of 91.
"There are individuals I dislike, and I want to put them on a SpaceX vessel and dispatch them to the celestial body he's convinced he'll locate," remarked Goodall during her interview with the interviewer.
Specific Individuals Targeted
When questioned whether the tech billionaire, famous for his questionable behavior and connections, would be part of this group, Goodall replied with certainty.
"Yes, definitely. He'd be the host. Envision who I'd put on that vessel. In addition to Musk would be Donald Trump and various Trump's real supporters," she declared.
"Additionally I would put the Russian president on board, and I would place China's President Xi. I'd certainly put Israel's prime minister among the passengers and his political allies. Send them all on that spaceship and send them off."
Earlier Comments
This was not the initial instance that Goodall, an advocate of environmental causes, had expressed criticism about the former president especially.
In a previous discussion, she had noted that he displayed "the same sort of conduct as an alpha chimp exhibits when he's competing for supremacy with another. They're upright, they swagger, they portray themselves as significantly bigger and combative than they may actually be in order to frighten their rivals."
Leadership Styles
During her posthumous documentary, Goodall elaborated on her understanding of leadership types.
"We observe, remarkably, two categories of dominant individual. One type succeeds solely through combat, and because they're strong and they battle, they don't endure for extended periods. Others do it by employing intelligence, like a young male will just confront a higher ranking one if his ally, typically a relative, is alongside him. And as we've seen, they remain much, much longer," she detailed.
Social Interactions
The celebrated primatologist also examined the "social dimension" of actions, and what her extensive studies had taught her about aggressive behaviors displayed by human communities and apes when encountering something they viewed as threatening, despite the fact that no risk really was present.
"Chimps encounter a stranger from a neighboring community, and they become very stimulated, and their hair erect, and they stretch and contact each other, and they show visages of rage and terror, and it catches, and the rest absorb that sentiment that one member has had, and they all become combative," she described.
"It spreads rapidly," she continued. "Some of these demonstrations that grow violent, it sweeps through them. Each member wishes to become and join in and become aggressive. They're guarding their domain or competing for dominance."
Comparable Human Reactions
When asked if she considered comparable dynamics applied to human beings, Goodall answered: "Perhaps, sometimes yes. But I strongly feel that most people are decent."
"My primary aspiration is educating this new generation of empathetic people, foundations and growth. But are we allowing enough time? It's unclear. These are difficult times."
Historical Perspective
Goodall, originally from London shortly before the beginning of the World War II, compared the struggle against the difficulties of present day politics to Britain standing up the Third Reich, and the "determined resistance" exhibited by Winston Churchill.
"However, this isn't to say you avoid having periods of sadness, but eventually you emerge and state, 'Alright, I'm not going to let them win'," she commented.
"It's similar to Churchill in the war, his famous speech, we will oppose them along the shores, we shall battle them through the avenues and urban areas, then he turned aside to a friend and reportedly stated, 'and we'll fight them with the remnants of broken bottles as that's the only thing we've bloody well got'."
Final Message
In her final address, Goodall offered words of encouragement for those fighting against political oppression and the climate emergency.
"In current times, when the world is challenging, there continues to be possibility. Maintain optimism. If you lose hope, you turn into indifferent and do nothing," she counseled.
"Should you want to protect the remaining beauty on our planet – when you wish to protect our world for the future generations, your descendants, later generations – then contemplate the actions you make daily. Since, expanded a million, innumerable instances, even small actions will make for great change."