Identifying sublime arrogance in the way we speak about ‘animals’
“Swing in and examine arrogance, pride, perception and ignorance.”
“Yesterday, there were several elephants stomping around, trumpeting about how “stupid all the other animals were because they didn’t speak ‘elephant’.”
‘Animal’ perception greatly differs from ours… the, uh… ‘humans’.
Chimps take the lead from their ‘human’ models and emulate naughty arrogance towards the rest of the animal kingdom!
“But did I tell you… the chattering chimps don’t care what elephants say; that’s because they can’t hear them (evidently the long trunked ones speak in guttural infra-sound toooo low for a monkey to hear).
Still, they find solace that the ants (being so small) have never learned to properly peel a banana.
‘Such inferior creatures!’”
With a smirk of pride, the hippo sneers at those ‘beneath him’.
Discover how ignorance assists ego in becoming bolder, stronger, more resilient.
“And then there’s the hippopotamus, he’s got a leg up, literally. He’s stepping on the crocodiles head, and snorting out all sorts of upturned hipposnout smack.
Listen!
He’s saying that crocs are slow, if not retarded, and could never be a hip hippo because they don’t know what it means when hippos spread their scat across the landscape.”
Hippos talk bad about the other animals in the pond.
The ego is a fun tool to play with when you’ve learned that it’s a wild beast to be watched.
“Hey… look up there! There’s a buzzard circling, impolitely screeching about how everything below is born to die. ‘Come on’ he thinks, ‘Is it really that hard to see that all the other beasts are there to satisfy his hunger?’”
In its self-absorbed hairless head, the buzzard knows that YOU are only there to feed his stomach.
Feeling superior, the dolphins show off in front of their seal friends.
“I know, and I didn’t want to get started about the dolphins… but yeah, I’ll say it. I don’t know if it’s true for all of ‘em, but with my very own ears I heard squeaks, making it perfectly clear that out of all the other animals on the planet, it’s they alone in the big blue sea, that have souls (and most seals believe it).”
Oh no, the dolphin is laughing at you!
Walrus’s insist that they are the chosen ones (by Poseidon)
“However, the walrus would disagree. That is, if he only knew that the dolphins were engaged in such badmouthing. Regardless, he’s sure that his tribe of pinnipeds are the chosen ones. After all, just look at his tusks!
Huh, perhaps he’s never met an elephant?”
“But Wait!”
“Down deep in the ground, a billion termites are chomping away.”
“They have thick glasses & real slick slide rules that fit into their thorax. Being engineers, it’s obvious who builds the most complex tunnels, and why it’s ‘non-animals’ (such as themselves) that construct the most architecturally sound structures in the wild kingdom.”
Come on! Even a termite has ego? Really? Now you’ve gone too far.
“Unbeknownst to them, the other animals barely notice their ‘magnificent’ structures, but do comment once in a while about their filthy lab coats and mud caked safety goggles.”
“Oh!
A crow just zipped through the air, cackling to his near-flight buddies.
Hear him?”
Crows are astounded that those with the most robust limitations have the largest egos.
“He really has a point… saying, “Those strange creatures with two legs have to build structures from wood and stone, just to stay alive!”
He’s flown all over the place, and can’t quite recall if he’s ever seen another animal that appears to have that limitation.”