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Being a human is a horror. Many forget the fact that despite everything we or our ancestors go through, we are still "human". We are animals. Organisms, whatever term you use, although we have superiority over the animal kingdom, many are delusional about our identity as living beings. lot of us are scared of one thing or another, and that is natural, but nobody gets how an "animal", or an "inferior organism" feels about us. We are horrifying creatures, to put it simply.
For example; imagine you were a wooly mammoth somewhere around 19000 years ago and you see some naked, furless, tiny beings throwing sharp rocks at you. The fear, the agonizing pain of being inferior is, scary, to say the least. The progress of humanity is terrifying. Think about it. If you're an alien looking at Earth's humans, you would see some naked barbarians hunting food to survive, and then suddenly after some centuries, they start producing a nuclear arsenal. It feels like we are, "overpowered", some would say. We are not the fastest, not the naturally strongest, and definitely not the biggest nor the most agile, so what makes us so feared? It's our brains. Knowledge, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Perseverance. It's the need to get more. The never-ending hunger for more power, more abilities, etc. 100 years ago we would need to send letters for communication. It was long, costly, and just overall crappy. And now we're in the present with the availability of the Internet, technology, science, and artificial intelligence! Even evolutionary we struck lucky.
Like the presence of sweat. Many find it annoying, but it served as a very important role in our barbaric times. When hunting for animals, of course, we needed to run a lot for a long time, and it requires a lot of stamina. While other mammals rely on panting to cool down, while it is effective, they would need to stand still to do so and is not very convenient when running for your life. The evolutionary trait of "sweat" allows us to passively lose heat and cool down without the need to slow down or stop completely. Something else that is rarely talked about is our 'mindset'. The thinking of; "Hmm........this is good, but I want better". The need to do captivates us to progress. We have the desire, the want, and the will to automate your tasks. Interestingly, laziness plays a big factor in our human history. It took humanity a very short time to go from "Just shut up and do it", to "How do I not do this?". This is a short and simple cause of a lot of inventions in your human past that have improved our lives till now.
Many think they are unlucky. To be born a human is a curse. That it is horrible and bad. But the truth is, many animals definitely envy us. We can definitely take over the entirety of the globe and the whole animal kingdom as we know it...............................if we were in unity. Although we humans may be one of the smartest organisms in the galaxy, we seem to be stupid enough to divide ourselves based on imaginary lines. Otherwise known as "borders". The system of founding countries and separating ourselves for some piece is land is stupid. Yet, we still do it, why? We murder each other of our own species for some dispute over some land drawn by an imaginary line. Our fate relies upon some old, bitter men who "rule" a piece of land when in reality we'd be better off in unity and together. In fact, Karl Max wrote about this in his book on communism, to make all of us equal and in unity. Unfortunately, Lenin established a worse version of the would-be good communism. So, my basic point is that we are both the smartest and the stupidest organisms in the world.
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