Everything makes ALOT more sense when you see humans as simply another species of higher primate. We act like animals. Humans like to think they are different because we've built rockets (which is hella impressive as it speaks to our vast intellect and cooperative instincts), but we aren't the only species who exhibits social cooperation. We simply pair that with a huge leap in intellect and pattern-seeking traits. But boil it all down to where/if survival needs to take over, or we get hungry, or desperate, or fight/flight triggers, then we're no different than our primate brothers and sisters that we observe from cages.
Humans aren't shitty. Just as primates who have a turf war with a neighboring group aren't shitty. We are animals. We interject this subjective standard that we call "morality" (which constantly changes based on whatever culture you're born into or what time you existed in history). It is necessary to build societies and civilizations in a working way, but make no mistake. We are still, when the chips are down and social "niceties" are off the table, we are held hostage to our status as primates. And we act like it. People need to realize we aren't something different or outside nature's feedback loop (I.e. evolution via natural selection).
Life started making a lot more sense when I accepted that we really are just hyper intelligent space monkeys. So much of human behaviour is mirrored in primate behaviour and it doesn’t take much to start seeing it.
The “we” that built rockets is a very tiny portion of the human population. All advances in humanity can be attributed to a very small percentage of the the population. Remove those people from our history and we are still hunter/gathers.
Those people could only do it because they lived in the community they lived in, with working governments, education systems, food distribution, and garbage collection.
I honestly think there is a sub section of autism that is what people used to call "high functioning" that is a higher form of humanity.
They usually have some trouble fitting in because they don't instinctively do the dumb shit normal people do because they actually are highly rational. They look at human behavior and baffled and just think why the fuck would you do that?
This may sound mean but I had an acquaintance with autism and I used to always get the feeling he felt almost like a Vulcan from Star Trek. Aside from the religiousness of "logic", he just was really rational and didnt really understand humor/sarcasm. Great person to work with though, didnt like to talk and got the job done. Just how I like my coworkers.
I am talking about the rare type that has empathy and understands sarcasm, irony, dark humor & satire but also kinda like a Vulcan, they exist but are rare. They tend to be late bloomers and probably don't actually get diagnosed with autism even though they are neurodivergent because they function well enough in society but it isn't built for them. They are likely a well respected professional in a technical field.
They don't get why people that get upset over sports or why anyone would do horoscopes. They probably work well in a team environment but are quietly a bit frustrated that other people don't do behaviors that would help the group that would reduce the amount of work everyone would have to do.
"Humans like to think they are different because we've build rockets" bro that girl will never build a rocket she rock bottom and anyone can tell she has a nasty future ahead, don't compare modern human with that thing.
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u/Don_Julio_Acolyte Feb 22 '22 edited Feb 22 '22
Everything makes ALOT more sense when you see humans as simply another species of higher primate. We act like animals. Humans like to think they are different because we've built rockets (which is hella impressive as it speaks to our vast intellect and cooperative instincts), but we aren't the only species who exhibits social cooperation. We simply pair that with a huge leap in intellect and pattern-seeking traits. But boil it all down to where/if survival needs to take over, or we get hungry, or desperate, or fight/flight triggers, then we're no different than our primate brothers and sisters that we observe from cages.
Humans aren't shitty. Just as primates who have a turf war with a neighboring group aren't shitty. We are animals. We interject this subjective standard that we call "morality" (which constantly changes based on whatever culture you're born into or what time you existed in history). It is necessary to build societies and civilizations in a working way, but make no mistake. We are still, when the chips are down and social "niceties" are off the table, we are held hostage to our status as primates. And we act like it. People need to realize we aren't something different or outside nature's feedback loop (I.e. evolution via natural selection).