(November 5, 2015 at 10:38 pm)Evie Wrote:(November 5, 2015 at 7:24 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Absolutely. It is exactly humans' refusal to see ourselves as part of nature, and a tiny part of a massive universe, that makes us act like dicks in the world.
Well that's definitely part of it but there's a whole bunch of reasons! Humans are dicks for many reasons!
But none of those reasons are divorced from the Earth or the things that have transpired on it. You could say if we wipe ourselves, it's our fault. Or you could say that something interesting happened on Earth for a while, and then fizzled out, since all the mental activity, feelings, etc. are (at least in theory) just byproducts of Earth's unique chemistry, iron core, the fluke of the moon, etc.
