Who The Hell Do We Think We Are?

Man, we are told, was made in the image of God. Man has extended his own longevity, discovered nuclear energy, landed on the moon and developed technology beyond the point of being able to control it. It would seem that the price for all these amazing achievements is a fatal loss of balance between the head and the heart. There is no more powerful or destructive negative energy in the Universe than that of man’s delusional, over inflated egotistical concept of self value and self importance. We have convinced ourselves, that human beings are the chosen, the precious living creatures, over and above any known or imagined living beings in the great “ all that is “. We have even invented religions and gods which confirm and support this hypothesis. Our uniquely specialized brain and superior intellect, apparently places us in a position of dominion over all we survey. We even have Holly scripture which say so. If this be true, we have thoughtlessly, disgracefully and to our own detriment, disrespected and defiled our stewardship of this miraculous gift by acting like ignorant, selfish, totally spoiled children. Man rules, divides, conquers, tortures, kills, uses and abuses his environment and all life within it, according to his whims, with an arrogant sense of entitlement clad in a false sense of impunity. In our insatiable lust for and greed for power and profit, we have chosen to forget or ignore the fact, that all sentient beings which shape our existence on this planet live, feel, yearn for and deserve the same quality of life that we ourselves so relentlessly and selfishly strive for even at the expense of others. Human beings dispense pain, agony, misery and destruction, without any feeling or thought beyond that of self justification and personal exoneration. We treat Nature and the creatures within it as inanimate objects to be sliced, diced, packed, labeled and used as nothing more than a commodity for our needs, pleasure and comfort. We chain a dog to the wall of a gallery just to watch it starve to death and call it art. We watch a woman stab and stomp to death a tiny kitten, with the stiletto heel of her shoe and we call it performance art. We skin cats alive because this allegedly makes their skin and fur better and we call ourselves fashion designers. We torture dogs before we kill and eat them, because some idiot got the idea that the toxins in adrenalin released during their suffering somehow makes their meat sweeter and tenderer. We cut the fins off sharks, creatures which have preceded our arrival on this planet by millions of years, throw them back into the water to helplessly drown but we take extreme pride in our short lived existence and puny five thousand year old cultures and traditions. We condone and take part in so many atrocities against life it’s self, including our fellow human beings, that it is not possible to list them all here. We pollute our air, poison our water and land, brainlessly chop down our trees, the very lungs of our planet, neglect our pets and fish and hunt our precious wildlife into extinction, without ever facing the fact that what we do to them we are actually doing to ourselves. When we homo sapiens deliberately hurt, injure or kill other living beings for sustenance, greed or entertainment, well, that’s all right after all, we are human, we are entitled. However, just let a bear, a lion, a tiger, a mountain lion, a wolf, a shark, or any other animal take one of us or our property out of fear or hunger according to their instincts, we find the old adage “ sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you “ hard to swallow. There is no end to lamentation and whining. The animal must be immediately vilified, seen as a bloodthirsty monster and destroyed as soon as possible. Human beings, so precious, so special, so sensitive. But do we really feel? Human beings, so smart, so intellectual? But do we really think? Because if we did, we would have to ask ourselves; who the hell do we think we are?