Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

Sometimes there is simply a correct way to do things.

Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?

Smart cookie. I am smart, but I am not a snack object dispensed from a packaged food machine. What a preposterous thing to say.

Here, in the kingdom of animals, ignorance is dangerous. The poor herring dropped into the tank lacks any awareness of the shark lurking below. Ask the herring whether what he doesn’t know can hurt him.