"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars

"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons." What I find much more morally abhorrent than Ju/'hoansi's extreme egalitarianism is our society's inequality, greed, corruption, sociopathic derision of the concept of greater good and short-sighted disregard for our future. If I were forced to choose between the extremes of living in an uninspired and underdeveloped society as described by Douglas Adams in my quote, or accepting this pathological glorification of rampant capitalism as the pinnacle of social evolution, I would rather choose to be a dolphin than human.