Elephants

Thursday December 7, 2006 - 6:49PM EDT

Watching one of those elephant documentaries now. Their behavior is such like people sometimes it is astonishing. Every time I see these animal documentaries it makes me think about how for the longest times humans saw animals as separate from themselves.  I think that as we've come to observe more and understand more animal behavior that the arrogance of humans to assume that they are something particularly special in this world is sickening. We are just another creature on this planet who have a particularly advanced brain.  That is it. Well that may not be it, but for the moment it is the most logical way to look at it. The fact that humans have imposed their own emotional standards on the functioning of the world is lamentable. Animals aren't stupid beasts that are simply filler for this world to make it beautiful or be used for whatever need we can come up with.