I wish there was time to study everything, but since there isn’t more science-y things tend to get neglected by me, usually. This show was a good piece by David Attenborough (brother of filmmaker Richard Attenborough) about animals and such in the sea, and good for people like me who don’t have a strong background in that kind of thing.

It certainly made me think about my life as a higher animal differently, especially when it comes to food. For an animal, if you have a nice meal and are safe and maybe a friend or two to swim around with in a very basic eat but don’t get eaten way, you’re having a great time. If you’re an animal and you can eat, basically you’re having a great day. Gratitude, right. Because I’m an animal, and I can eat basically whenever I need to, and now I look at the trouble, time and expense, that goes with eating differently. It’s no longer such a distraction from reading. For that matter both David Attenborough with his nature documentaries and Richard Attenborough with his art films have made me see visual media differently, even though books are still mostly great in my mind and TV is mostly not.

I also thought that the part about the higher animals—I forget if they were dolphins or killer whales—who play with their half-dead but still alive prey, almost taunting or torturing them for this almost unwholesome and very animal pleasure, was a pretty good example of how (in my subjective opinion) quite often things are not smooth and good on the earth these days, and since a very long time ago—this age of the world, and not just historical time.