What would you expect from a seahorse though, am I right?
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
— David Foster Wallace, This is Water
“Fish forget they live in water; people forget they live in the Tao” -Confucius?
What the hell is Tao?
Isn’t is a bunch of space elves?
Literally translates to “the path” or… “the Way”
Immediately thought of this.
I think the saying about fish not being aware of water is nonsense. People are aware that there’s air around them, without having to know any science. They can feel the wind, their own breath, etc. Fish have that plus they need to push against water in order to move. A fish that didn’t know what water was would be like a land animal that didn’t know what the ground was.
Next you’ll be telling me seahorses can’t talk.
Only stable horses
The unstable ones are mute?
I’ll have you know fish are fucking idiots
I have seen the documentary called Finding Dory and I can confirm this.
I’m not entirely sure if a fish would actually know what water is lmao
The FOOLS fall for little pieces of plastic with metal in them, so there’s no way they know what water is
humans jerk off to anime so it’s not like we’re that much smarter
No, that means we have transcended the petty limitations of biological sexuality. We are like gods.
We are gods amongst fish
Wasn’t Davinci one of the first to think about air that way? Welll, maybe aside from some ancient greek philosophers.
How many ways can we rewrite the allegory of the cave?
Humans live in an ocean as well.
Air is a fluid!
You want a shower thought? H2O is just another gas, compressed. We live in the ocean too, just the upper part with lighter gases.