“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 believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.”
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I recommend that you become familiar with it. We never know when those Volgons are going to show up.
Incidentally, the quote from the anti-captivity dolphin post was the dolphins, a far more intelligent species, final message to humans before abandoning earth just before it’s destruction, after having tried to warn us for decades. Ironicallythe entire opening sequence of the film (yuck - read the books) is dolphins doing tricks in captivity.
