Sound Familiar?
I’ve said this before, yet I can’t say it enough…
Conceit/vanity makes humans stupid.
There are entire branches of reasoning and contemplation dedicated to, if not, heavily influenced by the exploration of the notion (belief) that humans are the apex of evolution on this planet, for simply knowing how to transmute raw or processed materials, in efforts to offset their (otherwise would be) natural deficits.
“Why are we so great?”
“Why are our brains so much more complex than other organisms?”
“What makes us so superior to other species?”
“Why are we the only ones who know how to use tools and build complex structures?” (yada, yada…)
And it never even occurs to humans that they might be doing it because they’re wired to.
Like… It never even occurs to humans that technology might be or represent a phenomenon manifesting THROUGH them (which is inherent to something else), as opposed to something that’s authentically emergent FROM them as autonomous beings.
Just liken it to Ebola…
An Ebola virus, manifest as a sovereign organism within a human being, can’t know about the entire Ebola disease. It can’t know that it is and/or represents just one duplicate copy of an entire order of virus that comes fully equipped with proclivities and predispositions that lead both the virus and [its] virion to a fatal outcome. Like, an ebola parasite/virus can’t conceive of the notion that the ways in which it transforms and impacts a body are predetermined, and that those predispositions and proclivities belong to a static set of principles — a set of principles belonging to the order of virus that the local virus is simply a duplicate copy of.
The parasite/virus believes it comes up with the technologies that produce rashes, hives and that ultimately result in incontinence.
Once an Ebola virus sets up shop in a person, and starts ripping their body apart and reconstituting their structural building blocks, it’s outlook and worldview (as it manifests through the virion it self actualizes through) never contemplates or processes reality, or its circumstance and impact from above the frame:
“Look at how fucking awesome I am! Look at how easily I wreck shop on these weak, inferior cells! Why am I (are we) so much better than all these other organisms! I’m a fucking GOD here! Take that, you stupid red blood cells! Oh… Y’all gonna try to flex, you puny white blood and T-cells? Y’all aint gone do SHIT! I run this bitch! That’s right motherfuckers! Yo… Let’s build a rash over there! We’ll call it the Kingdom of Capituan! Let me hurry up and turn these red and white blood cells into slaves, and then weaponize the white blood cells against the red blood cells! All are beholden to me!”
And I want you to consider the fact that the entire time, the Ebola parasite believes ITS steering the ship. It believes its the one who’s in control and making things happen. It believes it is a self-determined thing…
Yet, its ignorance to the principles of greater virus (that its simply a duplicate copy of) both is and paradoxically becomes the reason it destroys its host — the body of the very organism it depends on for survival.
Conceit is at the root of parasitism.
Does any of this sound familiar?