There are niches enough for all : the large, medium and the small.
There is no evidence in the Earth's current environment that contradicts the idea that there won't always be room for some big and medium creatures, above the size of the ever-present microbes.
But the scientific assumption that the trend of evolutionary Progress is moving in a direction that indicated that only Big beings - ie humans and their herds - will dominate the Earth is hardly borne out by long term evidence.
Or by the current evidence that humanity is well equipped, mentally and technologically, to instantly blow itself all up.
This idea of evolutionary Progress was , in practise , further defined into the assumption that the only thing Big and complex, in an otherwise simple universe, were upper class western-oriented males .
People of colour, and other minorities, immigrants, the poor, women, children, the handicapped --- all were absorbed under the rubric of being potentially small and weak and unneeded on this evolutionary voyage.
This assumption guided the leadership of the Allies, Neutral and Axis nations of WWII - until it ended in disaster for all.
Instead we must accept that we are all, Big and small, stuck here together on Lifeboat Earth , willy nilly, family : we Big can't divorce the small - and they can't divorce us.
We don't have to love each other - lambs and lions lying down together - but we must learn to accept the inevitably and agree to get along.
Accepting the fact is step one on Humanity's long course of post-Hubris recovery....
There is no evidence in the Earth's current environment that contradicts the idea that there won't always be room for some big and medium creatures, above the size of the ever-present microbes.
But the scientific assumption that the trend of evolutionary Progress is moving in a direction that indicated that only Big beings - ie humans and their herds - will dominate the Earth is hardly borne out by long term evidence.
Or by the current evidence that humanity is well equipped, mentally and technologically, to instantly blow itself all up.
This idea of evolutionary Progress was , in practise , further defined into the assumption that the only thing Big and complex, in an otherwise simple universe, were upper class western-oriented males .
People of colour, and other minorities, immigrants, the poor, women, children, the handicapped --- all were absorbed under the rubric of being potentially small and weak and unneeded on this evolutionary voyage.
This assumption guided the leadership of the Allies, Neutral and Axis nations of WWII - until it ended in disaster for all.
Instead we must accept that we are all, Big and small, stuck here together on Lifeboat Earth , willy nilly, family : we Big can't divorce the small - and they can't divorce us.
We don't have to love each other - lambs and lions lying down together - but we must learn to accept the inevitably and agree to get along.
Accepting the fact is step one on Humanity's long course of post-Hubris recovery....
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