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knowledge is like a double-edged sword. the more one knows, the more one realises how very little one knows, and how much of what one knows is applicably useless.

there's a lot about how humans in recent millenia have organized themselves that bothers me. a whole hell of a lot. if i started listing all the things the defy reason, logic, intuition, sense, and basic survival, i'd be here for the next few millenia doing it. what i want to address right now, however, is superiority. a signature i use is, "human evolution is its willing rejection of superiority". one of the reasons i struggled so much to plow through the ancient text known as the bible is its whole basis in humans being somehow superior to every other form of life on the planet. it's a given that "we" are "top of the food chain". that we are somehow guardians of the planet (the one we're actually wiping clean of most life), that it's our role to moniter, control, guide, whatever, everything else here. this is anthropocentric ego. we aren't actually any different to anything else here, not in a planetary sense of the word "different" anyway. we are born, we eat, shit, reproduce, and die. as does everything else, including the planet, the solar system, the universe, and whatever is beyond it. but humans, with the help in the last couple of thousand years of the bible, have proclaimed themselves top of the pile, rulers, with the god-given right to oppress, use, abuse, and take ourselves out of any moral obligation for reciprocity. this misunderstanding of hierarchy gives us governments, police forces, nuclear power and bombs, guns, tanks, roads, clear-cutting, man-made desserts (anyone remember that the wastelands of the "fertile crescent" were once, prior to gilgamesh or whatever, forested), the current travesty that is climate change, and hillary clintons wonderful ideas that all children should be educated by the government in schools and not by their incapable parents in the home.

this misunderstanding gives us technology that is designed to help only rich people at the expense of, well, everyone and everything else. it gives us scientists that pour bleach in non-human eyes to learn that it shouldn't be poured in human eyes. it gives us the armed forces, a group of people who go and kill and maim and torture because someone "above them" told them to, no questions asked. it gives us electricity that, for millions of years wasn't necessary, and now is so necessary that we're killing the planet for it. it gives us - what - three oil spills in the last month with no mention that we shouldn't be drilling for oil let alone transporting it on oceans across thousands of miles in ships that split apart when hit or driven wrong. it gives us cops who shoot young black men for walking towards them with a hairbrush in their hands. it gives us the justification for destroying what's left of the fertile crescent, which isn't much. it gives us the right to clear-cut a whole island so that we can grow palm oil on it. more perpetuation of the great myth that humans are somehow above and better than everything else, including the only planet we have to live on. it gives us the space program that is attempting to find other planets to extract resources from, other planets that we humans can potentially move to when we've finished destroying this one.

superiority, people, is a human construct and does not exist outside of humans misperceptions, ego, and bullshit.

evolve.
willingly give up your notion of superiority.

before its too late.