Man’s Superiority

Humans are the most advanced of Earth‘s creatures. I’ve heard it a million times in many different ways, but I often wonder if it’s true. Whenever I hear a thing like that it seems as though the word ‘advanced’ is used in the way someone might use ‘better’. It just shows how we humans see ourselves as the superior race. But we can’t possibly be superior. Not in this world. Not anymore. How can we believe ourselves to be the best when we are constantly killing one another and destroying the planet we take refuge? Yes, we’ve learned how to heal our wounds and build towers that touch the sky, but don’t all of our advancements eventually hurt us in the end?

Less people die from wounds and illness, but overpopulation creates higher death and crime rates.

We can travel across a continent in just a few hours, but pollution destroys our land, skies, and seas.

We produce an abundance of food quickly, yet all around the world people starve, and the ones who don’t die from gluttony or cancer.

We are seperated from one another to create peaceful communities ruled by one, but we ignore those who need our help and battle those who don’t.

We do or don’t do these things and the world dives head first into chaos, yet we continue to call ourselves superior. We continue to pretend like we have control. Like we have all the answers to the puzzle that is life. But if we were really superior, why are we the only ones destroying this Earth? Why are we the only species unable to survive with what was given to us naturally? The answer is simple. We aren’t superior, we’re just a bunch of fools who think we can do better.