This afternoon I was in one of those long and involved conversations about how amazing the octopus is. People were swapping stories.<\/p>\n
For example there was about the octopus who climbed out of its tank in somebody’s living room, made its way across to the fish tank across the room, ate a fish, and climbed back into its own tank (all captured on video).<\/p>\n
Or the incident, also captured on video, where an octopus makes itself completely invisible by changing its skin color to perfectly match the texture behind it.<\/p>\n
Or the fact that Jaron Lanier refuses to eat octopus, because he considers it a sentient creature.<\/p>\n
This went on for a while, these hymns to the intellectual, social and emotional superiority of the octopus.<\/p>\n
Feeling the need to contribute, I said “don’t forget the political.”<\/p>\n
“Political?” some people looked confused. “What’s political about an octopus?”<\/p>\n
“Haven’t you ever heard,” I asked, “of Octopi Wall Street?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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