Hi I followed your blog recently. This is reminding me of the story "Solitude" - spoiler kind of but not really? A short dialogue in the middle of the story - A woman who moved to the story's planet as an adult scientist/anthropologist, and her kid who she raised there, are discussing how that planet's people describe the society and technology that existed there many generations ago. The woman says, "They think that airplanes and tunnels and submarines were magic." The kid says, "No, they totally understand that those things were just technologies, it was the *people* who were magic."

The woman doesn't understand and thinks these are basically the same thing. The distinction the kid understood was that *anything people did to gain power over others* - whether using a fighter jet to bomb people or establishing patriarchal marriages - was now considered a form of sorcery-against-nature on this planet, and its people's taboo against that was the basis of their current non-hierarchical way of life.

I love your frog video!