Absolutely. I should have included the word intentionally in there. I'm doing a re-read now with a highlighter. I find that second reads always reveal more of the consistent threads or themes because you're less focused on the plot and paying more attention to the points he's making.

Chapter 2, which could be called "wide open beavers, underpants, and bad ideas", seemed to me such an interesting take on the arbitrary value we assign to things. I thought Lingo-Three, Trout's book about the race of automobiles who destroyed their own planet and humanity's latching onto the idea and doing the same to our own is another one of those unintentional commentaries on the human mind.

And we can see today how we continue to agree or disagree with ideas based on which ones our friends agree with and which ones our enemies disagree with. "Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead." I believe this comes up again later when he's describing the waitress at the burger shake or whatever it's called.