Songbirds are bourgeois. Waterfowl are petit bourgeois. Raptors are historically progressive liberal imperialists. Gulls and shorebirds are global finance capital. Ratites are lumpenprole. Penguins are the proletariat
people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now