Getting over our human complex.

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.