"you and me baby aint nothin but mamals"

"you and me baby aint nothin but mammals so lets do it like they do it on the discovery channle". While the song by The Blood Hound Gang is a song about sex, the chorus speaks a biological truth, we aint nothin but mammals. Human seem to seperate them selfs from other animals such as dogs and monkeys. This unjust serperation creates a void in our lives that effects how we live negetivitly. There are six main reasons why we think we seperate our selves from animals.

The first reason is Genisis. In the book of Gensis the first chapter tells the creation myth. God created the earth, light, plants, animals, and humans. Then god dacreed that man would dominate over all other living things. Genisis tells us that all the animals of the world are here to serve us. this idea puts us above the animals, we are here and everyone else is here for us. this is used as a justification to mis treat other animals because they are so we may be happy.

The second reason is science. Scientists have created a tree which shows what family every animal is in. when the tree is drawn you see that humans branch out from the rest of the animals. This tells us that while techinally we are animals, we are a specail kind of animal diffrent from the rest. according to this chart we are diffrent from other animals, like a super animal.

A third way we seperate ourselfs from animals is the myth of creation. We are told that there we're the end result of evolution. Evolution started at amebais who got bigger then came onto land and after millions of years we were born. We are told that we were the end result everything. that all that evolving and such were all so we could be here. This is the equivlent of a jellyfish saying that after years finally the jellyfish was created. the average person will find that stupid. they will says things like "thats stupid after the jellyfish things kept evolving." The same can be said about us. who said the world was done changing. This idea of we are the final product tells us that all the animals of the world were just part of the equation to make us. we put ourselves on a pedistil sayin elvolution has created the ultimit species, us.

In dailey life we are constantly surrounded by people. At the same time we are rarely near any other animals. sure we see the squirl or pigeon, mabye even a hawk. but 95% of the time we are with other humans only. By seperatting our selves from animals we easly forget our animal instincts. We get so cuaght up in the human socail pressures of everything. we lose sight of the fact that we are animals and enjoy doing animal things.

Descartes came up with an idea that would further seperate ourselves from animals. He believed in dualism. the idea that we are just a soul trapped in a body. but he took it to another level by saying animals dont have it. he would then tutore dogs and explain that the cries of the dog were really stimulus responces and that there was no real pain and no real soul. This idea has been taken in by our society. by adapting this idea we can now easly kill hundreds of animals for food and uses hundreds more for test expirements, because they dont dont have souls so they arent really there. while we on the other hand have soals and must be defended from everylittle thing that might harm us.

Along with this idea of dualism is the idea of religion. Since we humans have souls we get to go to heaven. the human is just a ghost trapped inside of a machine. when we die that ghost is released and sent to heaven or hell. other animals dont have this. When a dog dies, he just dies. there is no soul to go up to heaven for eternal bliss. This idea that we have an eternal soul and others dont puts us a grade above everyone else. while everyone else will die, we will last for ever.

That last way we seperate ourselves is the most clear. When we think of animals we think of wild animals running through the woods or playing with each other in the plains. we see these images on the tele as we sit in our desks in a unnaturally lighted room. We spend the majority of our lives in chairs. your bed, to the kitchen, to the bathroom, to the train, to school and back. we dont run around and be active like the other animals. This creates a void in us. by sitting down all day we cant act on our animal instincts.

There are four major benefits to relizing we are infact animals.

the first is childbirth. By seperatting ourselves from our animal ways, we lost confidence in how we give birth. we bagan to go to hospitals and get the drugs and metal objects. by understanding we are infact animals and seeing that no other animal lets other animals cut them open to take out the baby, we understand that we can give birth with out the hospitals and surgeries.

The second is our physical health. By accepting we are animals we throw out the idea of dualism. Once we accept the idea that our body is part of ourself we start taking better care of it. we will start accepting the fact that we do need excersice to be healthy, and not just to fit into those jeans. As humans we look for the greater things in life. we try and develope our mind, because we think thats what makes us better then the other animals. We focouse so much on the mind we forget about our body. by understanding we are infact animals we will look at our bodies as important too and try to improve that.

The final reason i remember is the idea that no one will save us. By assuming that we are the end point of evolution, and that we have souls we assume that we will be saved in the end. What we have to understand is that we are not specail. we are the same decaying matter as everything else. 99% of the animals who lived on this planet are gone. Once we understand that we are just another animal we will understand that no one will save us and that we are on our own.

This subject has effected me.I like many people have said "we are animals" but never really beleived it. The idea that we will not be saved has caused me to lose hope. up until now i always thought things would get better one way or another. in part because i seperated my self from other animals. but now i see that i am jsut an animal and i have just the same chance of becoming extint as every other specieces.I now believe that we wont last for ever. All hope for humans have been lost. its only after you lose everying are you free to do anything.

This unit has also effected my ideas of a perfect world. my dream world has alot more animals roaming free and alot less hard sidewalk. one day dream i had after a class was new york city, except the sidewalks and streets were gone. in their place was dirt and trails, kinda like when you take a hike through the forest. i saw vines climbing the walls of buildings and animals in trees. While this was only a day dream its interesting to think of a world where we are more connected to nature with out doing back to the wild.
its also important to understand we are animals so we may shed the socail pressure that seperate ourselfs from animals. i have never seen a fox with skinny jeans and a tight polo shirt. by understanding we are animals we can do thing that benefit us and not the opposite. instead of eatting burgerking we get a salad. instead of wear bright red skinnt jeans which are hard to move in we wear looser clothings that we can move. The more we let go of unnatural behaivor the more we become free.

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