From the first days Homo erectus began suffering from
Alopecia the writing was on the wall. Just think of the ridicule we must have
undergone. In fact our subspecies of primates should have been called Apeus
Alopecius because we only stood up so we could say, “yes but we’re taller than
you are.” But that’s when our insecurity complex first took hold, that and the
infuriating loss of our thermal blanket. Not just the constant taunts of
“baldy”, we were bloody cold at night as well. So we were naturally attracted
to fire and, like anyone with an inferiority complex we decided fire was a
virtuous big deal and ‘we’ invented it. Since then we’ve seen invention as our
unique selling point. The other primates, as today, just shrugged indicating,
“whatever”. We saw round rocks rolling down hill and invented the wheel, we
invented dwellings, ropes and pegs and the rest is history, all because we were
bloody cold. Where all the other animals had hair or feathers or layers of fat
and lived comfortably in their environment we alone tried to conquer it by our
inventions. And like all things with an inferiority complex we couldn’t live
amicably. That’s if anything other than humans could ever conceive of a
complex. So here we are today with central heating, F1 racing, which is as
fascinating as watching traffic on the A65, nano tubes and self tapping masonry
screws, still improving on our eon old first ideas. But as anyone who’s seen
videos of abandoned villages and WWll defences knows, take your eye off the
ball for a hundred years and nature reclaims your efforts to conquer it. So
isn’t it time we stopped trying to prove we’re superior to everything else?
Isn’t it time we got over our inferiority complex? I don’t know about you but
every time I’m with an animal something in my mind thinks, ‘Oh I wish I could
be more like you, so naturally yourself and a part of nature.’ Now we’re
running out of all the things our inventions need it’s a good time to notice
how animals do it.
