Re: Crab Theory
How would the story sound if you explained that as soon as one crab finds a way out of the pot, it reaches back to help its friends, and they reach out to it to help pull them out of a mess they haven't managed to get out of themselves.
Sometimes, the crab loses its grip, and they all fall back into the pot, and get hauled up by fishermen, and eaten.
But the fishermen only tell you about the failures, the pots they found full.
What about the ones that got away, who organised and succeeded. Who escaped en-masse and are living a happy life on the ocean floor.
The fishermen don't talk about those ones, because it makes them look dumb, compared to the crabs...