Appreciation of Humanity

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    As much as I rant and ramble about humans and the strangeness we all do. But then I find a video with a specific TikTok that asked a question.

    Now, I don't remember whose TikTok it was, but I remember it was in a video from a commentary channel I find myself giggling at regularly - Isaac Butterfield. The man is an amazing comedian, and I would recommend his YouTube in a heartbeat. The TikTok was a part of a feminist circle that I have a hard time with. It was a two-second clip, but it made me think a lot: a woman stating, "If you think about it, there is nothing to appreciate a man for."

    Of course, this is entirely false. There are many things that men do that most women refuse to do (the first thing that comes to mind is working the jobs with prolonged physical labor like construction). There are a lot of things men do and endure that a woman would not be able to due to how most of our society treats most women. (Which I will probably ramble about in another post if I ever feel the need to talk about it.) But there was something else bugging my brain as the hours passed.

    Was there anything to appreciate humanity for?

    At first, I could only think that the answer would be "no." In the grandest schemes of things, we only exist to take things over, reproduce, and just be an annoyance. Then again, all animals and plants have the same basic criteria in their existence. I focused on how we have taken control of so many things that really didn't need our input. Things like animals in the wild didn't need our influence. The plants didn't need us to modify them. But here we are. We did it anyway. 

    After a while, I thought about how we could be appreciated, as anthro-centric as that sounds. As much as we didn't need to get involved with the animals, we can help the endangered species by protecting them. As much as we didn't need to change the plants around us, we modified them so they could thrive and help us thrive in the process. 

    For me, it's a toss up. I have a hard time putting humanity in the proper place in the grand scheme of things. Hopefully it is something we think about in a realistic and a practical way going forward into the future. 

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