At this time, I was working with an "Anthropologist" and I didn't even know what an anthropologist was, or did. We were working together building wire mock up for aircraft; those are the bundles of circuitry for planes; never mind if you don't understand that, the only relevance is that too diverse people were in the same place at the same time, working the same job, and that was the reason they were there.
This guy was the most brilliant person I had ever been around; when he told me he was an "archeologist- anthropologist", I couldn't stop asking him questions; the first one was "What are you doing in this aircraft manufacturing plant."? He told me he was waiting for a "dig"; that's one word, meaning people pay you to dig in Africa, or somewhere when they get funding. (an awfully insecure job), and working to support himself until that happened.
He talked like somebody who was born on a college university with old buildings, and any time the work slowed down, I peppered him with questions, and he always had the answers. I had just bought this Mingus album "Pithcanthrupus Erectus", and I asked him if he knew what it meant; when he told me in great detail what this meant, and how that was part of his job, I was floored.
pithecanthropus
1.
any primitive apelike man of the former genus Pithecanthropus, now included in the genus Homo See Java man, Peking man.
When this man stood up, he was "Pithcanthrupus Erectus".
Here is Charles Mingus's take on that; Mingus saw this as the first upright human being and assumed that since he was so proud of standing up, he saw himself as the ruler of the world. And as the ruler of the world, he became rather arrogant. And then, this arrogance makes a counterattack with nature, which led him into decline, and eventually he fell into extinction.
That is what Charles Mingus intended for you to hear; can you hear it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB6GkA54n_QWhen this dude stood, he felt like ruler of the world.
