Can we learn from fish?

We definitely can learn from fish. We can learn from everything around us! Especially animals! After all, in the grand scheme of things, we are the same as that little fish. It’s just a much more primal person in the eyes of nature. Drawing wisdom from animals is such an ancient and valuable tool to have.

I’m not quite sure what you’re saying when you say you’re embarrassed to explain the workings of our world? Elaborate on that would ya?

Em, the first comment on the video was kinda clever don’t you think?! Its cool though…

I didn’t get it either..fish? :O

We may be sad, but fish are still dumb asses. It is a very romantically human thing to be smart but depressed.

@General, what makes you believe fish are ‘dumb asses’? For all we know, we are the fish swimming in the fish bowl thinking we have bigger and better things to do.

Kind of like how communism “doesnt” work. It in our cultures blood to do things a certain way, and I mean human culture. If we had been practicing communism for hundreds of years I’m sure we would all be pretty good at it. Maybe not strictly communism, but that idea. We are incredibly smart, but we still cant learn from ourselves

Aside from being at the top of the food chain, we can solve problems, build shit, organize ourselves better than any other animal…

Kirk – “A smart alien would certainly make us all feel stupid though.” Ya no shit. That’s like me saying “a smart person would definitely make a less smart person feel dumb.”

Show me a complex industrialized fish society with public works, technology growing at an exponential rate, food production systems able to feed everyone and a defense infrastructure capable of warding off predators. Then we can consider learning from them. Other than the aerodynamics of a fish’s fins and scales, there isn’t much to learn.

@Daniel I have a feeling he’s talking philosophically not about technological and societal learnings.

@Kirk I see what you’re saying. The foundation of human civilization as we know it is materialism. It’s just not right. Hey that’s what Fight Club is all about. “You are not your fucking khakis.”

@Daniel – fish never have world wars or struggle to find meaning. They rarely run out of food and usually always have a place to live

@Keenan, Humans aren’t eaten alive by other humans and it’s all chill because it’s just how the ecosystem works.

@ DanTheMan– sorry about that.. The name of the clip is “Humans Are Monkeys,” if you search youtube for it, it’ll come up. It’s 3:53 minutes long. It takes on a perspective that we’re way stupider than animals.. I find it hilarious :) (and for the most part, very true) It’s worth checking out, if not for anything else, a laugh.