DEFINING TUNA

Every tuna knows every other tuna, if not by name, then by fin and gill and tail. It is one big happy school under the waves - except that they sometimes eat their classmates. In the tuna world there is no us and them. There is only "I" and everybody else. A school is then a mass of individuals. There are liberal tuna who like swiming on the outskirts of the school, and conservative tuna who feel safer being surrounded by comrades. They do not seperate into packs of liberals and pods of conservatives. When an isolated shark attacks, the liberal tuna are picked off. When a pod of dolphins or Orcas strike, the conservatives get in each other's way, and it is the liberals who survive. Each variation in behavior has its advantages and disadvantages. But liberal or conservative, all tuna follow the leader - except of course for the lead tuna. And the leader is not governed by logic or ideology. The leader is still an "I". This is the advantage of tuna; they have no frontal lobes, the place where furture projections are calculated. Thus each tuna lives in their personal moment, aware only of the tuna tail swinging in front of them. Thus, even swimming in a massive school, every individual tuna is an ipod.