[QUOTE=Anaamika]
If they packaged it as purely entertainment that’s one thing.
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I certainly don’t remember it being packaged as a pure documentary either.
[QUOTE=Anaamika]
A little touchy, aren’t we?
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Looking over what I wrote, I can certainly understand why it came across that way. I really meant it more with a friendly nudge to the ribcage. I’m sorry.
Well, I don’t know about “purely”, but that’s what it essentially was. Or at least, entertainment is how my wife and I took it. We know that penguins have no cerebral cortex, but analytic intelligence isn’t required for the primitive emotions that come from the amygdala. They suffer and fear in a real sense, just as much as you and I do. It’s just that they don’t associate it with metaphors. As humans, we can feel these things just by reading about them in a poem, or seeing them in a movie.
I agree with you there, which is why I defended DrLeth in her recent pitting. She had tried to explain that so-called atomic bombs operated at a nuclear level. She caught hell for it.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
What’s wrong with anthropomorphizing? It’s just metaphors. Every single goddam thing doesn’t have to be a science textbook, does it?
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Um, no, but nature documentaries do.
You’ll be happy to know that my brother agrees with you 100%
(He’s on the AMPAS documentary committee, and voted against it being put on the Oscar ballot.)
[QUOTE=tdn]
But what they failed to impart is just how many penguin species there are. I think there are 7 or 8.
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This site says 17.
And New Zealand.
Which means they are found in the northern hemisphere (just barely).
[QUOTE=lissener]
Um, no, but nature documentaries do.
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Sorry, but bullshit. Every description of nature that isn’t a mathematical equation is a metaphor. Even physics. “When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.” — Niels Bohr.