The Ignorant & Arrogant Species

Dogs. Cheetahs. Cats. Trouts. Elephants. Humans. Monkeys. Pigeons. Lizards.

Yes, we too are animals and as far as I'm concerned, the most pathetic ones. So that's why we've invented and created everything we use in our lives right now; to compensate for our lack of... well, everything.

We are not loyal like dogs, we betray, we kill each other, we cheat, we lie.

We cannot run as fast as cheetahs, so we've invented cars that can accelerate to 100 km/h in 2 seconds.

We do not have tails like cats to keep our balances, so we've built wide sidewalks.

We cannot stay  under the water and swim through the sea like trouts, so we've invented submarines and ships.

We don't have large masses and trunks to drink water and eat easily like elephants, so we've invented fine china, forks and spoons.

We cannot travel from branch to branch in a forest with extreme speed, so instead we've cut those forests down and built houses and factories instead.

We cannot fly like pigeons, so we've created airplanes.

We cannot adjust our body temperature according to the environment, so we've been trying to change the world's climate.

As you can see, we do not possess much as humans, just some opposable thumbs and brains. So, we've tried to make the best out of what we have, and tried to fit  in to world we were born in...Unfortunately, that is not always the case. With humans, it is the other way around most of the time: try to adjust the world we were born in to be able to live on it. We've cut our forests because we were bothered by the "wild animals" coming out of them and would prefer villas instead of clean air, we've filled up some parts of our oceans so that we could build islands shaped like a palm tree, because, you know, we're rich and we love islands, and, moreover, we've exterminated other species just because we like to do that as a hobby.

Have you ever seen a lion who shoots down people, skins them, decapitates them and hangs their heads on its wall and puts their skin on their living room floor?

I doubt it.

OK, I'm over the fact that we invented stuff, in the end, that's why we have brains, but why do we feel the need to harm other creatures who deserve to live on this world as much as we do? We hunt deer, hang deer heads in our living rooms, we skin bears and wear their fur in the winter to keep warm. We steal their gift of nature and use it as our own. We skin polar bears, incredibly cute creatures, and spread their skin across our room, sleep at night looking at it. The most cruel of all, for me, is taxidermy. Stuffing dead animals, displaying, selling, collecting them... Totally not weird, right?

I believe it's because we are very vulnerable creatures. It's similar to how little "pocket-dogs" bark at huge dogs, as if trying to prove something, or how short people are generally more ambitious. Humans can be wiped out with a single sweep of the ocean, a crack of the earth's crust, a gust of wind, and there is nothing we can do about it. So, we've declared a war against nature and we've been trying to prove nature wrong ever since, trying to show it what we are capable of. This is also the reason why we've created religion; because we need something to believe in, something to curse to for all the bad stuff which happen to us that we cannot stop, and something to praise, love and adore for all the good stuff.

We are vulnerable, ignorant little creatures, so full of ourselves. All we have of significance is our brains, and, with all the advancements in medicine and technology, we still haven't figured out how that works. Think about severity of the situation.