One thing that I can say is that I can look at human animals just like other animals.
I don’t mean to be facetious, but I believe this to be an asset, a capacity in awareness as a psychological posture of detachment.
I don’t think that I did this consciously, nor did I participate in its manifestation other than generally being open to anything new and bored quickly with uninteresting routine.
I was also born at a time of accelerated rational development, knowledge, and a time of quantum media explosion. Were it not in this period of mass media access, what it exposed, and new and different perspectives it provided, had it not attracted my attention, I would not be an expression of this modern organic phenomenon. I am an innocent byproduct of this evolution of collective human awareness and communication.
The result of this phenomenon is not about the individual personality, but more about what occurs in awareness of the collective consciousness resulting from it. In other words, it doesn’t make me special, nor any more important. I am only one of many as an expression of its influence, of that which was previously unavailable.
The questions become, ”How is this awareness, now a generality, being used?” And, “Is it taking the global community into collective awareness?”
Even with an expanding awareness there remains a majority who remain captive in the previous era of “belief as reality”—denying, rejecting, and resisting rational development where and when it directly confronts their systemic beliefs, having been instilled in them as innocent children in their mental, emotional, and conceptual development. Much of this is done in conventional images of psychological stability by avoiding giving their attention to disturbing issues. This is called repression and is not serving our collective existence, especially when there is an abundance of knowledge and experience to provide rational guidance and training, especially with children. This is a disturbing issue in regards to how we manage our biological balance with life on earth.
The individual and collective expression of this is seen in the polarization of “like and not like” feelings of those without rational knowledge or awareness of themselves, nor of that which they are judging. They respond to “Us” and “Them” just like pack animals. Humans continue this animal behavior no matter how conscious we are of the human/animal nature of our species. We have extensive and viable knowledge that meets resistance, preventing integration into the collective whole. This, in itself, may well make the difference of whether or not we survive on Earth as a species.