On a planet to our west, (in some ways quite similar to ours), the conscious creatures who clearly dominate life there have a most curious feature, indeed surely one of the strangest in the universe. They believe they need instructions in, (now get this), how to live.
When you see this put into plain words, it seems too outré to be true, but it assuredly is so. The very life form whose intelligence is so incomparably beyond that of any other, that they have not only subjected all others to their will, but have also rearranged the physical conditions on that orb to better suit their specific comfort. Yet these same, undisputed supreme-reigners live their days constantly looking ‘round to their peers for directions on how they should be conducting their affairs and living their lives. It is like kings beset by unshakable uncertainty.
As with man, they do not have to be instructed in how to eat, sleep, or any of the activities necessary for survival, (same as with all of the creatures who they dominate). But then when you shift your attention to that unique feature, which gives them their dominance, (their conscious intelligence as distinct from the merely instinctive form of the other creatures), this astonishing apparent need they feel for instruction reveals itself.
Compared to all other forms of life on the planet, these creatures are as absolute monarchs, and ones who have achieved their position of supremacy via a single feature. There can be no question but that it is their conscious intelligence alone which makes them the singularity that they are, and yet much of their lives is spent soliciting directions from their peers on precisely how they should be exercising this unique ability of their brain to think and to talk. Does this not strike you as curious?
None of the other life forms, (fauna & flora), whose very existence has been bent to the convenience of the conscious creatures, question the ways they have achieved and maintain the situation. No one questions the lives and methods of these thinking ones, save themselves. No one else of the world feels a need to be tutored on how to lead their lives but them. It is as though the serfs are totally satisfied, while the king is riddled with doubt.
J.