17/04/2023
(Bit in progress. Enjoy the writing process!)
Our species isn’t special, I hate to break it to you. We aren’t made in anyones kmage but our own. We aren’t ordained with special Powers of abilities, just the luck of natural selection, and a handy appendage that allowed us to develop tools, and language and complex thought.
The thumb.
Yes, our entire dominance as the top species on this rock boils down to this (thumb).
With it you can do this 👍. And this 👎. And if you’re extra generous, this 🪬.
And we were able to hold a pen. And write our thoughts and experiences down. And learn from others like no animal has done before.
And over the course of a couple thousand millennia, we evolved into Ed from accounting. Isn’t it special? I certainly feel that way.
But is our species special? No.
And I can prove it.
Have you ever been to a little place I like to call Golden Corral? Or really any buffet style restaurant. And I use the term restaurant technically and very loosely.
Especially if that place has a chocolate fountain. Those are the best places to see just how special our species is after mamma jo dips her seventh Buffalo wing in the drizzler.
And have you ever been to a farm, maybe as a kid, and went to see the pigs? At feeding time the farmer will get a bunch of slop, usually ground up rotting food discards, and will shovel as much of that slop into long troughs, allowing the pigs to come and “pig out” on as much slop as they can choke down.
Now, does that remind you of anything?
Seems to me that the pigs trampling each other at the trough, and the people trampling each other for the chocolate fountain and all you can eat shrimp wings have an awfully lot in common.