Who needs a hundred monkeys on typewriters when one little chimp at a piano will do? 🎹🐒
Here I am — Marcel Du Chimp — pounding out some blues chords with my furry fingers, side-eyeing the shadow-puppet show flickering on your screens.

You call it social media.
I call it the modern Plato’s Cave.
Pixel shadows on a cave wall, characters playing heroes and villains, and we sit there munching popcorn (or plantain chips) like it’s a series on Netflix. 🍿

But me? I’m no cave dweller. I’m a jungle chimp with a keyboard and a drum machine, sneaking into your feed from the wild where vines still hum like upright bass strings. Out here, it smells more like Eden than Wall Street. No neon tickers, just cicadas in compound time.

So while some cave keepers boast of making things “great again” with plot devices fit for an avant-garde off-Broadway musical, I’ve been working with my robot friend and AI side-kick — Sancho 2.0, to score the absurdities of human geopolitics.

Based on our theory of evolution of greatness, (I took a few notes from Charles, my great-great-great uncle’s aquarist), we stitched together a silly song for the soundtrack of this show.

It’s our dinner-jazz satire on the slogan that never dies. Each verse tips its hat to the presidents who actually did something monumental — Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Obama — before pivoting back to the man in the red cap who held a generals’ meeting to warn of “enemies within.” (Cue rimshot.)

Put on your headphones, take a breath, and maybe peek outside the cave for a minute. You’ll hear the jungle in the chords.

For your amusement and entertainment pleasure,

🎵 Here it is, our new tune: “Great! Again?” 🎵

Enjoy!

Marcel