The Tender Carnivore presented a very interesting take on how we should view ourselves since we clearly are animals. I love Shepard’s look at what we have in common with other primates; to me it makes it obvious that we are animals whose brains just happened to evolve to a larger state, allowing us the capacity for language and higher thinking.
As to what this means about how we should act? Well, I think we need to figure out what nature intended for us, in terms of balancing us against everything else in the world. What is our job?
Surely nature couldn’t have expected that we were going to take over the world and use its resources to create the types of technology that we have. Not that nature has a mind; I don’t want it to sound like I mean that. And maybe we do fit right in. Maybe we are the natural evolution of where Earth was going. But if that’s true, then we can only think that we are on the course toward being destroyed. If we are just animals, then we had better become animals in space, and fast, or else our time will quickly be up.
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