so, I return to an earlier thought, which
is Anthropomorphism……
which is the attribution of human traits, emotions and intentions
to non-human entities and is applied to such disciplines as
history, psychology, and yes, even philosophy…………
part of the indoctrination we have as children is this
Anthropomorphism within our world…….
the environment was “created” for the use of human beings…
the world was meant for human beings to use as we wish…
I doubt the universe was created with human beings in mind…
in fact, the universe has evolved without humans beings in mind at all……
the universe exists as a neutral entity… with no thought at all to
its citizens, be it human or otherwise……………
we fit into the society as do all other creatures based on the fact that
we came from this evolution of life… this idea that we are the solely the receivers
of the universe benevolence to us as human beings, is just another example
of this Anthropomorphism…………. the “universe” doesn’t know or care about us
in any way, shape or form…it is and we are and the interact with each other,
the universe/environment with us, but we came from the evolution of living matter,
but we are not the reason for the evolution of the universe…that just happened…
and we are simply the results of that evolution, that random evolution that
happened to create us as it did all life…….
the result of this random understanding of the universe is that because the
universe is and does act random, it doesn’t give us any possibility to create
a coherent viewpoint, a worldview that gives us our place in the universe,
that gives us a home within the universe…… a random universe is just that,
random and random doesn’t give us any line graph of who we are and what is
our place in the universe………
that is in part, why people hate evolution so much… it takes away
the possibility of anthropormorphism that drives so much of our religion
and philosophy and history and our view of who we are and what is possible…….
the truth is that evolution doesn’t give us a place or home within the universe
and that is what drives the hatred of evolution…………….
people want a given understanding of our place in the universe that
religion or a political viewpoint gives………….
we Anthropormorphize the universe in order to create an worldview of
where we exist within the universe, a home to understand who we
are and what is possible for us…………
a reevaluation of values might take away that home, that special place
that we need in order to maintain the fiction that we have a home,
a place within the universe, a special viewpoint from which we can judge
the universe from………………. take away that viewpoint and how do we judge
who we are and what is possible for us?
Kropotkin