A New View
Someone shared this amazing idea with me today. It’s a TED Talks video and it’s an intelligent, original idea. In the video, Joshua Klein talks about how we could use a crow’s superior intelligence to benefit society rather then extinguish them.
He explains how the these animals and others like it withstand human development by adapting to the surroundings we’ve created.
Klein goes on to show surprising research that demonstrates a crow’s swift thinking skills while making their living. His intention with this was to show an alternative to population control.
Oddly, this got me thinking about our resistance and judgment of other cultures.
We snarl at crows, but it is only our skewed perception that finds their existence unnecessary.
Similarly, to us, Koreans eating dog is a big taboo, as is people eating horses. Again, this is only how we see it. Perhaps, like with the crows, it is what we don’t know rather than what we do know, that determines our points of view.
And that doesn’t seem very smart, now does it?
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