How comes it, ye think, that man is so subject to abuse – self-abuse? For nothing attacks man, save man. Yet for what reason doeth he so relentlessly assault his own being? This self-abuse is so unrelenting and all pervasive, that men do not see it as a distinct human characteristic, but accept it without comment – as a natural part of their existence.
If a man speaks more than a dozen words on any subject or person, it is predictable that his comments will become mortally abusive. Be he president of a nation speaking on international politics, or a pedestrian observing driver’s habits, almost every compound sentence that ever is uttered by men on this planet will be some form of abuse directed solely at man himself.
Men do not express abuse toward nature: at hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, all matters of extreme threat to man. No, men are only abusive about themselves. No matter the obvious dangers, they never think of the natural world outside of them in abusive terms. It is simply there, hazards and all, but they are never moved to make abusive comments thereabout. Although death could be seen as man’s greatest threat and adversary, he does not in fact feel as abusive toward death itself as he does the actions of a man who causes the death of another.
It is as though man sees nothing condemnable in the entire universe except himself, and this approaches the mere fact of him existing. His words pick specific examples of human behavior for the abuse as though the specificity is proof the abuse is deserved. But never does man face the full reality of the abuse being a constant factor in the moment by moment entirety of his life.
(In case you have not noticed: this is a continuation of yesterday’s news regarding the missing possibility.)
J.