Being human is basically walking around with cosmic questions, weird thumbs, emotional support animals, and the unreasonable confidence to think our opinions matter while a cat points its butthole at the pillow of existence. We love. We worry. We choose the bridge. We ruin the planet and then write essays about meaning. It’s tragic, holy, ridiculous, and somehow still worth turning the music up for. Humanity: deeply flawed, occasionally beautiful, and apparently sponsored by butthole awareness.
Humanity may be the only species arrogant enough to ask what makes us human while a cat slowly presents its butthole like sacred evidence against us. We love, we grieve, we build mortgages and meaning, we choose bridges to prove we are not robots, then immediately destroy the planet with our fancy thumbs and confidence issues. Maybe being human is not intelligence or virtue. Maybe it is the weird mixture of empathy, absurdity, self-awareness, bad decisions, and the ability to laugh while the goblin-cat desecrates clean sheets like a tiny furry nihilist with excellent timing.
I agree. It's why I have a theory about the folks acting so abhorrently towards others (ICE agents, mostly). I think we have a subspecies among us. I really, really do. I'm pretty sure there is physiological differences we haven't discovered, and won't for hundreds of years. If indeed, mankind survives hundreds of years. It ain't looking good right now...
I used to think ALL HUMANS had at least a little empathy. I no longer believe that. The orange asshole has taught me better. Subspecies makes as much sense as anything I have heard to explain it. I am going with that one.
Being human is basically walking around with cosmic questions, weird thumbs, emotional support animals, and the unreasonable confidence to think our opinions matter while a cat points its butthole at the pillow of existence. We love. We worry. We choose the bridge. We ruin the planet and then write essays about meaning. It’s tragic, holy, ridiculous, and somehow still worth turning the music up for. Humanity: deeply flawed, occasionally beautiful, and apparently sponsored by butthole awareness.
Don't buttholes on pillow cause pink eye? Or is that an urban legend?
Brava Wendy P.
Thank you!
Wendy, that was hilarious. Did you ever consider that the "not human" as an AI response?
Uh, almost every single time. Mostly just to see what happens...
Humanity may be the only species arrogant enough to ask what makes us human while a cat slowly presents its butthole like sacred evidence against us. We love, we grieve, we build mortgages and meaning, we choose bridges to prove we are not robots, then immediately destroy the planet with our fancy thumbs and confidence issues. Maybe being human is not intelligence or virtue. Maybe it is the weird mixture of empathy, absurdity, self-awareness, bad decisions, and the ability to laugh while the goblin-cat desecrates clean sheets like a tiny furry nihilist with excellent timing.
Summed it up with perfection, my robed brother in WTF. 😀
Empathy. Those without it are potential Humans only.
I agree. It's why I have a theory about the folks acting so abhorrently towards others (ICE agents, mostly). I think we have a subspecies among us. I really, really do. I'm pretty sure there is physiological differences we haven't discovered, and won't for hundreds of years. If indeed, mankind survives hundreds of years. It ain't looking good right now...
I used to think ALL HUMANS had at least a little empathy. I no longer believe that. The orange asshole has taught me better. Subspecies makes as much sense as anything I have heard to explain it. I am going with that one.