JOLLY DAYS

Politicians Are Jellyfish

Speaking of politics, here is an article about jellyfish, another brainless, drifting neural network, also without sight, and leaving a stinging sensation if approached too closely, just like politics.

Planning is not their forte. In place of a brain, jellies have a nerve net. Jellyfish are the free-floating relatives of sea anemones and corals, much older than fish, and not much changed for more than 600 million years. They ruled the ocean, in their passive way, when there was almost nothing but ocean. Now they drift into their food or their food drifts into them. The pulsing creates a current that pulls prey within reach.