The Fascism of Madagascar 3

What we see emerging from the movie Madagascar 3 is something quite peculiarly familiar. The never-ending claim that there is always a Big Other or Master. That one can not be truly free. Early in the movie, there is a scene where the camera is panning across a series of characters, and ends up on the biggest and strongest monkey in the scene – a monkey. A direct connection to the Darwinian notion of: survival of the fittest. For if one take evolution at one of its most primal claims is that the human origins lie not in the homosapien, but in the simian race that pre-existed it. But also, we must take this a step further and see what the actually idea is implicating. For if humans are now the evolved version of an ape, then in this fictional account we are met with the very object obstructing our path to freedom. The primitive self, or fast-forward a few years, humans.