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Mu freshman year of high school, we had a rather basic assignment in English class - pick any fiction book out of the library and write a book report about it. After searching all of class, I found my prize - Piere Boulle's "Planet of the Apes." Finding the work that a classic series of schlock ...

Scifi movies from the sixties and seventies were based on felt like getting away with something. Like those movies, though, the real twist in this story is the ending.

The movies, a product of the late sixties, were obsessed with the looming specter of nuclear Armageddon, while the book, like influence by mass media and the growing consumer economy, saw mankind's fall from grave differently.

In a scene not to dissimilar to the Animus from the Assassin's Creed games, the apes hypnotized a human test subjects to tap into the memories of an ancestors. There were learned that one luxury in particular led to this collapse - the trained ape.

Humans began by offloading domestic labor to their apes, but soon they were also turning away from intellectual labor. And as time went on, like a muscle unused, the human mind atrophoed into a primal state while apes rose to dominance.