Dystopia, octopus intelligence, and what makes us human.

This books has a fascinatingly unique perspective. May be, I’m biased, because octopuses are my favorite ones. However, this book and discussion are not really about octopuses, or even other species, but about us.

Indeed, we have an empathy crisis and the industrial civilization with doomed beliefs that technology can save us is responsible for it fueling this crisis further as it’s feeding on it. 

We treat nature as resources to be consumed to support our addictive way of life. We do not treat nature as an equal or a wiser species. As long as we have this ego/human-centered attitude, we are nowhere else but on the path of self-destruction. 

As barely a dozen of folks read my article, they probably all agree, but tomorrow they will do nothing about it, because who cares about saving octopuses or other 200 hundred species which go extinct every 24 hours? 

We are merely a reflection of what our society wants us to care about, what and who to like, what to think and what to do. We are merely slaves to the propaganda that surrounds us 24/7, the propaganda of illusion that humans are the center of the world as once they believed they were the center of the universe. 

This way of thinking tells only one truth about ourselves that we’ll probably never embrace: we are under evolved and unspecial. If you think you are evolved or special, do things without thinking on yourself. Can you? Isn’t it an interestingly challenging exercise even to think on anything? This is how our society is run; it’s all about constructing an image of our own importance; individually or collectively; Tik Tok is more popular than real issues.

Written by Irina Le

反烏托邦、章魚智慧以及是什麼讓我們成為人類

這本書有一個迷人的獨特視角。我也可能有偏見因為章魚是我最喜歡的。然而，這本書和討論並不是關於章魚或甚至也不是關於其他物種，而是關於我們。

事實上，我們有一場移情危機而工業文明注定要相信科技可以拯救我們，它造成這場危機進一步加劇的原因，因為它正在以它為食。

我們將自然視為資源，以支持我們令人上癮的生活方式。我們不將自然視為平等或更明智的物種。只要我們有這種以自我/以人為中心的態度，我們就在自我毀滅的道路上。

由於只有十幾個人閱讀了我的文章，他們可能都同意，但明天他們將對此無所作為，因為誰在乎拯救章魚或其他每 24 小時滅絕的 200個物種？

我們只是反映我們的社會希望我們關心什麼、喜歡什麼和喜歡誰、想什麼和做什麼。我們只是圍繞著我們 24/7 的宣傳的奴隸，宣傳人類是世界的中心，就像之前我們都相信我們是宇宙的中心。

這種思維只表示一件事：我們可能永遠不會接受的關於我們自己的真相：我們還沒有進化而且我們並不是特別的。如果你認為自己是進化的或特別的，那麼做事時不要考慮自己。你做得到嗎？這難道不是一個有趣挑戰的練習？我們的社會就是這樣運作的；這一切都是為了建立一個我們自己重要的形象；單獨地或集體地：抖音比現實的問題更受歡迎。