lahermite

i was thinking i should have said "devolve" because we certainly didn't used to have this fucked up notion of superiority. and we didn't used to destroy the planet, either. i think it was derrick jensen who said (paraphrased) that we couldn't possibly oppress something we felt equal to, therefore we had to put (some of) ourselves "above" others in order to create oppression, the class and slave system, and civilisation.