2026-04-15 03:17 UTC
One of the most complex social species to ever evolve, not only self-aware but aware that others possess the same awareness. Conquered pretty much every habitable niche on the planet, and quite a few that really shouldn’t have been but still thrived. Domesticated a predator and rival while it was still a threat, then domesticated more animals and plants; can still eat damn near anything and survive. The world’s foremost toolmakers, recorders of knowledge, and perpetually curious. We have so much potential but instead still along shit at one another and befoul the places we live in. We could do better with ourselves than be apes in suburbia.
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@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2026-04-15 03:50
> “For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy