today my mom and i met a colobus monkey at the zoo who posed for pictures and then my mom held out her phone to show him the pictures of himself. he was looking at the phone screen for like a full minute i wish i could like understand what was going on in his head
people are like “if you put crabs in a bucket they can’t escape because they keep pulling each other back in, this is called crab bucket mentality and describes why people don’t help each other” and never acknowledge that crabs do not naturally occur in buckets, a human with more power had to put them there
ALSO the crabs arent acting with any kind of malicious intent, theyre not thinking “oh no youre coming down with me” theyre thinking “pinch pinch pinch whats going on right now” its insane to extrapolate a moral point about humans from their behavior
reblog if you engage in crab bucket mentality (pinch pinch what is going on here)