Accidental progress

Speak your way to the top

Some question our superiority claiming that dolphins, pigs, and chimpanzees are more intelligent than we give them credit for. Even the humble house cat has an ability to be grumpy when it senses we are packing for another holiday. Chimpanzees will use sex like us to get attention, with their privates glowing bright red, legs wide open, laying partially back between the branches of the tree. Such use of power along with the frequent scolding and teaching the infants put them on par with us. They understand one another quite well but have not been seen writing about it.

Language can be intentionally ambiguous or stiff and clear. It can be abstract or based on reality. The bigoted assume that only those that can arrange neat prose are able to convey concepts from one mind to another.

There needs to be space for animals to evolve and there is not much of that to foster another equivalent species whilst we hog everything. Would it make a difference to your world view if there were more than one human equivalent around? What if the Neanderthals lived side by side with us the homo sapiens? What if there were three other species with pretty much the same capabilities as each other. Or are they? We might simply assume we are all the same. Only by pure misfortune, a minor string of events led to this lonely species being one that stands out.

Mankind monkied about for ages before we began to distance ourselves as top primate. To make real headway a lot of force, violence and quashing of uncertainty is needed to get the bulk to fall in line with the leaders.

A termite went to see the toppity termite to get approval for a new construction. Yes, you can, go ahead but make sure you create plenty of parking spaces for the disabled and allocate a few levels for the underprivileged. Also, I want to see that it doesn’t cast a shadow over the ant’s nest over there. The power of being able to talk to one another is not to be underestimated. You can’t even think without language. Wrong. Picture an object and rotate it and work out what will fit and where it will reside. Some people can’t do this, that is true. There are those with limited or no visualisation capabilities. Can you count without saying 1, 2, 3... in your head? Picture an apple, think of a pair of pillar boxes, a trio of rings and a table with four legs. Now move from one image to another.