I'm reading the book Pecked to Death By Ducks. While it may sound like it, it is not about any sort of murder through fowls. It's basically a travel guide, except to strange and dangerous places that not many people know of ( I'm not sure why it's named what it is, I'm pretty sure he included it in the intro, but I didn't read it, so...).
In it he's describing all these different cultures and people, and through it I was thinking the usual " oh, that's weird" stuff and I got to thinking: why is it that some people see things so differently then others. I think it's weird that the island has wild horses running around that people hop on when they need a lift, and they probably think it's weird that we have a giant metal machine hurtling underneath our streets that we just hop on when we need a lift.
But why is it humans in particular that see things so differently? Is it because we're more adaptable
? But cockroaches are adaptable but they seem to see eye to eye. Maybe because we're smarter then most animals. Then again, we might not actually be very different at all. Maybe most animals are very individualistic thinkers, but we don't realize it.
In it he's describing all these different cultures and people, and through it I was thinking the usual " oh, that's weird" stuff and I got to thinking: why is it that some people see things so differently then others. I think it's weird that the island has wild horses running around that people hop on when they need a lift, and they probably think it's weird that we have a giant metal machine hurtling underneath our streets that we just hop on when we need a lift.
But why is it humans in particular that see things so differently? Is it because we're more adaptable
? But cockroaches are adaptable but they seem to see eye to eye. Maybe because we're smarter then most animals. Then again, we might not actually be very different at all. Maybe most animals are very individualistic thinkers, but we don't realize it.
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