/sci/ - Science & Math

I started down a bunch of anthropological rabbitholes and now Humans terrify the ever-living fuck out of me. I'm sure you've seen the copypastas regarding our ability for self-regeneration.

We tell jokes about how we're monkeys all the time, but have you ever stopped to REALLY think about that for a second? It's implications? We're more closely related to Mice than we are to Cats, yet we are incapable of identifying with them and view them as pests. I can't help but look at other people as wild animals now, just as much a slave to their whims as any other animal, cognizant that I'm in the same position and behave just as predictably.

Even our physiology is super fucked up! We're some of the creepiest looking apes; hairless lanky creatures built with no fur to be able to run long distances in arid climates. We're basically Cheetah Monkeys, which is about as horrifying a concept as I can imagine. I think the only reason we aren't more actively freaked out by our place in the animal kingdom is because we've been subconsciously trained by the neural pathways in our brain to see ourselves differently from the rest of the world. Part of me wishes I wasn't human only for a moment so I could see what we look like to the other species. Even primates in general freak me out a little due to the uncanny valley of how similar they are to us. Our culture, our consciousness, our wars, our base desires, our art, it all seems really fucking primitive when you try to look at the human race through an objective third person lens.

Has anyone else dealt with this sort of strange misanthropy? Also general weird anthropology thread