There is a grand delusion as old as civilization that claims a position of superiority of the human mind.

That we are somehow special because we can construct and destroy complex systems. At least the most intelligent amongst us are given to make such silly claims. Whereas, objectively, we are not that special, we are a part of a complex system that preceded our existence as a conscious species. If there is any validity to the claim that we are special, we make little effort to show it.

I think this becomes noticeable today more than ever as we’re filling our surrounding habitat with filth of many kinds to a very dangerous degree.

For the past century and a half, since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, we became increasingly stuck in our ever-expanding artificial habitats and away from naturally occurring organic habitats in which we are designed to exist as another organic element. This was even noticed and signalled by some of the intellectuals of the day, philosophers, poets and artists that centred their thoughts around the loss of some vital feature. However, the sensation they were pursuing was too abstract at the time, often addressed hyperconceptually, evading any considerate collective actions to straighten things out.

Most of our problems today, personal, social and environmental, can be traced back to this linch-pin moment in the history of civilization, and the issues that have developed since then are intimately intertwined in the foundation and framework of how our society reshaped itself but also the values it pursues and promotes.

Pollution of the soil, water and air are critical issues that our superiority can't seem to handle that well, in fact they seem to be getting worse. They are elementary for keeping any living thing healthy and functioning. Yet, our big brains fail to recognise this as a major priority, always tricking itself that what it needs is those new fancy shoes or another vacation, more money and a brand new car. But what are they all good for if we go on and eat, drink and breath garbage?

Can this be considered superior behavior? Far from it.
The animal that senselessly destroys its habitat and creates spaces where it can hide from the rest of the living creatures in order to retreat in the confines of its mind is not a superior animal, it’s a broken animal.

Of course, there are always claims of conspiracies and malicious intent behind such reckless behavior that goes against an innate impulse of self-preservation of ourselves and other members of our species. However, I think the issue is rather psychological in nature. Where the shape of our intellect, that has developed in and conditioned to artificial spaces, is incapable to recognise and preserve an objective good over its pressing subjective ideals. These are the results of a mind that has become trapped inwards in a state of dreamy detachment that omits itself as a part of a complex natural ecosystem, and what it cannot unconsciously associate with, it will destructively repress.

All of this might sound like some preachy angry hippie rant, and it could very well be if it was just another opinionated belief and not a mere cold assessment. Can we make the claim that we are superior if we can hardly recognise and keep what its made to function autonomously? Nowadays, in our artificially minded control-obsessed society, we can barely conceive of letting an apple tree grow apples on its own without our superiority intervening to spray the shit out of any living organism around it, hardly ever thinking as to what is the purpose of that living being in that complex system.

I keep looking for signs of superiority, it might take a while.