We are an arrogant bunch, aren't we. Mankind. there's not really anything else that shares our cockiness. Animals aren't arrogant. You might get a pigeon that waits til your really close until it flies away, but is that really arrogance? Sure, hypothetically we could eat it. We are Man. We eat what we want. But that's not exactly the height of conceit. The height of conceit, that would be going to the ocean dressed like a seal and floating around thinking that "No shark would eat me!" Surfers are far more arrogant than a pigeon will ever be. Until I see a pigeon dressed like a hamburger, then they'll be catching up.
But aren't we right to be arrogant? We're Homo sapiens. Two Hundred thousand years and we're still number one. But it's gotta be more than that.
How else can we justify our self belief?
Not enough death or disaster. If we were to all be properly rattled, like a meteorite hittiing the Earth, that might put us in our place. But science'd explain it away as a natural disaster and we'd continue upon our priveliged way. I think science has alot to answer for in that respect. Cos a few hundred years ago, earthquakes, blizzards, hurricanes. That was Gods Wrath. That couldn't be explained away by science. That was the big guy upstairs ensuring we paid penance for our sins with a bout of heavy precipitation. But then science came along, with its reason and rational, and put nature in its place. Once we could explain it, we were one step closer to controlling it. Our personal stocks were boosted. Gods dipped significantly. Now, in this increasingly godless age, we have not only forgotten our place, we've forgotten it ever existed. But pretty soon we'll remember. Cos if this conceit continues, we'll never do anything about this "climate change bullshit." And the it'll be too late. We'll all be doomed, and we'll remember our place. It's down there with the worms.
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