The hen hutch is vacant. All that is left are remnants revealing a happy and harrowing ordeal that is life. Life is happy and harrowing for hens and human beings.
Human “being” is a peculiar word. It suggests a pre-existent condition- one that IS. An eternal reality of a kind that I may play a part in. Like Plato says. I prefer that view of human beings to the one we are currently experiencing.
Seems scientists see humans as biological matter- creatures only- on which to practice their scientific theories. Maybe the white-robed masters should call us human “blips” instead. Blip suggests a person as faceless and lifeless as a Target mannequin. No eternal being, no “divine spark” as Lincoln says all men possessed. Nobody cares what happens to mannequins.
When I say human “Being” it suggests all the inherited rights we possess that are necessary for our well-being and happiness. The idea upon our past civilization was built. Blips, however, have no real significance or value. There’s millions of ’em. Blips are just agents of matter, fighting their way through the mud and slime towards some pinnacle of egoism called Progress. The “Uberman” Nietzsche speaks of perhaps.
If Truval Noah Harari is the Uberman in the “War” on Global Poverty for example, hasn’t he taken away everyone’s rights by giving himself unlimited power? All human beings are consigned to eating grasshoppers in poverty (although “equal” in status) so Mr. Harari can self-actuate?? That is the worst expression of equality I have ever seen.
Can’t we at least find a better Uberman to guide us? Someone whose ideals may prove a bit more beneficial to human kind? Surely poor people have been eating grasshoppers for centuries. John the Baptist!
I am glad hens have no such delusions of grandeur, otherwise there would be constant war in the hen pen. All hens can’t be Uberman can they? They all can’t be equally right, equally valuable in their contributions, equally entitled to respect and applause?
It’s like human beings have chosen a worldview that logically dictates we be in a perpetual state of derision, arguing, and discontent. Competition for the “Uber”-ist Uberman. A plague of grasshoppers may just be the thing that saves us at this rate!
Consider this, as proof of my claim that progress as currently defined is the worst worldview to possess and the enemy of equality: Does any human being ever say: “I want to be a number on a government roll! My deepest desire is to be a faceless cog in a never-ending experiment modernists call progress! This is what I freely choose to be,” says no one ever. That’s not a dream, that’s a nightmare, Noah!
Did Nietzsche plan to enslave the world? Or is he acting out his own enslaved status unknowingly and encouraging others to do the same? Is this the Turkish Delight of human beings’ demise? How is it possible hens have propensity to avoid such preposterous hubris and humans do not?