Our social skills are a survival tech- we are not fast, strong or deadly 'as is'. We cannot bring down prey with our teeth and fingernails. We had no choice- think 'outside the box' or face extinction. AND SOMEHOW WE APPARENTLY GRASPED THAT CONCEPT.GlytchMeister wrote:Y'know, what with being an apex predator on top of the food chain and all that, Apotropiac Sphinxes (besides Phix) aren't really all that advanced.
It's like half of their brain is stuck in caveman mode.
Phix managed to get some WD-40 in there and get the other half turning too, but it still seizes up from time to time.
Just an interesting way of thinking. I don't think we humans would have gotten as clever as we have if we started out on top of the food chain.
We cannot fly- yet we fly. We cannot breath underwater- yet we breath underwater. We cannot survive in a vacuum- yet we do, and the list goes on. There is nothing on the planet we cannot hunt and kill. There is nowhere on the planet that we cannot explore. Yet without our technology, we are not much more than bait... and when I say technology, I include the wheel, flint knives and spears, clothes, shoes...
Yet if Tigers or Lions could learn of our thinking, I doubt it would have much impact on their society- they are still multiple generations of 'Might makes Right,"
-for that matter, there are many humans who are only slightly better in this regard... sadly, too many of these are rulers of countries with frightening military capacity. Glytch, I think you've tagged onto something there...
