"Renee Descartes (I think therefore I am) believed that the other great apes like gorillas and chimps were equally capable as humans of human speech.
He believed the apes were intentionally hiding this fact from us humans to dupe us into believing they were less intelligent than they truly are. He believed their motivation for this was to avoid having humans put them to work."
yep. and in the quote, the holidays don't "follow each other" one follows the other
technically, new years day comes after Christmas, and Christmas comes after new years day.