Skeletons in Humanity's Closet

That our species is so genetically similar yet so socially diverse speaks to some other force at play in life, in that we are uniquely this and uniquely capable and destructive.

When we understand we’re animals we can actually work from points of commonality; when we don’t there’s no way to connect the dots.

Humanity has been running away from the genocide of other human species since it happened; choosing to deny we’re animals rather than deal with the uncomfortable fact that we’re directly descended from a species that probably committed genocide on all other human species.

The Hell we fear already happened tens of thousands of years ago and it means we can’t just blame all our current problems with racism or environmental disaster on white people’s ancestors, even though they’ve definitely exacerbated it the most recently. It means it’s ALL of us that are responsible for dealing with it, why we have nightmares of human-like creatures, and why we can’t wait to meet them.

The aliens like us that we search for so desperately in the skies were right here and weren’t alien at all and humans very likely killed them all. We can’t reconcile ourselves as a species until we process our real past and understand who we actually are. The whole world is under this kind of delusion that’s been going on for more than 10,000 years that we were always the only “real” humans.

We need to decide who we want to be as a species going forward, and how to channel our genocidal urges into healthy alternatives. Because the truth is, we’ve all been speciesist for a very long time.

They say…