There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys. How’s the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, "What the hell is water?"

— David Foster Wallace, This is Water

I think the saying about fish not being aware of water is nonsense. People are aware that there's air around them, without having to know any science. They can feel the wind, their own breath, etc. Fish have that plus they need to push against water in order to move. A fish that didn't know what water was would be like a land animal that didn't know what the ground was.

Do you like living in the ether?

How many ways can we rewrite the allegory of the cave?

Stupid seahorse can form complex sentences but can't analyze the water around him like some kinda simple animal!!

I have a friend who believes in magic, and that we can't see it for the same reason this sea horse is confused about the ocean

Humans live in an ocean as well.

I thought the seahorse was talking about the microphone