If man strayed into another reality and was arrested and put in a line up, he would be identified by the fact that he: resists the irrelevant. He spends a large part of his life engaged in unnecessary resistance. Obviously it is necessary or life would not have him doing it. But what is required of humanity collectively is not so of an individual who does not want it to be, and who can understand what is going on.
The resistance unique to man is what makes possible the unique physical conditions he makes for himself in which to live, but it also causes him unregistered confusion in that life has him calling it one thing when it is clearly and easily seen as another. His resistance to actual, physical things is what facilitates his ability to rearrange the environment to suit him, rather than, as with other creatures, the other way around. But the resistance of interest to the few, is that which manifests itself toward nothing. It is a resistance to things that have no actual substance. Ordinary men are either not programmed with an interest in this distinction, or else are not equipped with the ability to realize it. Only the few come with both.
Men historically, (for example), have resisted gods alien to them. Empires have fallen there over, and contemporaneously do they still seriously insist that their proper resistance to false gods is an acceptable basis for war. But if an observer from another universe were here and was shown to men of differing religions, (or political parties, or schools of philosophy), engaged in related activity, (bowing, praying, reading from their particular holy scripture), and was told that they considered themselves mortal enemies and were combatants in armed conflict, and he could only see them, and not hear them – it would be incomprehensible. When men resist in situations of significance, the basis is physically visible, no words are needed. But when men are embroiled in the secondary resistance unique to them, it makes no sense without an accompanying verbal explanation. (And even then it makes sense only to those involved.)
Man alone demonstratively has thoughts, ergo a manipulative vocabulary of sounds. It is his resistance to these intangible symbols solely, that establishes his universal uniqueness. A follower of God X does not resist another man’s God Y. He resists the words, “God Y,” (the same with all political, philosophical, economic, and artistic factions). Whatever it is about another man or group that you resist, but cannot actually put your hands on, is useless resistance, known privately amongst a few as insanity, (a little joke no doubt).
J.