• BallShapedMan
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    1 month ago

    Systems theory in a nutshell. If we judge a fish for its inability to climb a tree it’ll go through the rest of its life thinking it’s dumb.

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      Unless its a mudskipper. Then it’ll lord its ability to barely climb the bottom of a mangrove root over all the other fish to feel better about itself, despite still being pretty bad at it as far as tree-climbing animals go.