We care about humans for the same reasons that ants care about ants. It just makes good evolutionary sense to preoccupy ourselves with lots of thoughts about ourselves, our family, our friends, and our potential mates. There is not much survival value in focusing on the actions and accomplishments of spider monkeys or oak trees.

It is true, we are, in the grand scheme of things, insignificant. We are just one species inhabiting a narrow thread of time in the tapestry of eternity. We live on the small hard outer surface of a giant gas-covered ball of lava hurtling through space around a nuclear fireball, which is spiraling with billions of other nuclear fireballs around a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, which is only one galaxy of billions. Go almost anywhere in the universe, at almost any time, and we humans are nowhere to be found 99.999999999999% of the time. And you are only one six-billionth of that insignificant species' current manifestion.

But right here, right now, people are all that we have. And for all our flaws, we really are magnificent little creatures. Think about it: we are the product of a peculiar chemical reaction that has been going on for 4 billion years, a chemical reaction called Darwinian evolution that has gotten so complex that parts of it have become aware, self-conscious, and capable of learning about the very universe from which it arose. As Carl Sagan put it, "we are a way for the cosmos to know itself".
Oneironaut Reviewed by Oneironaut on . Why do we glorify human beings? We have so many things to marvel at and admire in this world, yet our society chooses PEOPLE as its main focal point in the various areas it involves. And I speak not only of glorification of other people in the higher levels of society, but in all levels rather, what with people constantly talking about the lives of others and basically going about their business while forgetting all along that, in the grand scheme of things, they are insignificant in their own self. Yes it may seem as if this Rating: 5