Maybe this explains my daughter’s near-obsession with jellyfish (though I do have to say that the Monterey Bay Aquarium does one hell of a job displaying them).
I’ll have to make sure I nip any I’m-going-to-evolve-into-a-jellyfish notions in the bud, however.
“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 — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in 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.”
Maybe this explains my daughter’s near-obsession with jellyfish (though I do have to say that the Monterey Bay Aquarium does one hell of a job displaying them).
I’ll have to make sure I nip any I’m-going-to-evolve-into-a-jellyfish notions in the bud, however.
Their revolution will definitely not be televised.
I’m reminded of my Douglas Adams:
“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 — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in 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.”