There is something about looking at humans in the same objective view as all other animals that is a bit frightening or intimidating to most.
Two things come to mind: first is seeing humans as objects like anything else—a box, a dog, a cat, a cloud, etc. Second is seeing humans as being something special, in that one wants to be more in their being than just an animal.
There is a leadership seed in the species of needing a master that is different, separate from those who are to be mastered. The question of universal value, status and regard.
There is a very clear divide of ego-ness, of “Me” and “them”. Where “them” are objectified like objects in your garage or office in which you use for your own purposes. Many humans discard others—not just dismiss—but discard them like a piece of broken furniture no longer of any use.
This distancing, separation of kind in a dismissive exclusion of others from yourself and your world, the “yours” and the “Me and Mine,” seems to be a universal characteristic of behavior embedded in the neural matrix of all animals in the kingdom of organic life. This is an excellent reflection and insight into narcissism that is prevalent in the egos of leaders, usually dominant males— though not exclusively—the inherent “boss”, tyrant, dictator, dominatrix, winner, etc.
I think this could be something of a required characteristic needed to guide family, group organization, etc. It is an ability to dismiss looking at, or including another when they don’t fit or serve the image of the leader’s vision of “reality” and/or purpose. They don’t fit in with what the leader sees, wants, or needs to be holding, in a place of dominance in order to direct others “beneath” them. This animal hierarchy prevails throughout the animal kingdom, including humanity.
Wealth, power, politics, ownership and possession are the domain of governing, control and domination in social interaction for whatever its perceived purpose or need.
Anarchy is a rejection of unwanted, incoherent, incompetent or pathological narcissistic leadership.
This subject of the neural psychological nature of egotism and its embrace in self importance, I believe, is the story of the history of humanity in the growth and interaction of population size and the demands of provision and self defense in the evolution of civilizations. The need to manage collective behavior seems to gravitate to dominant male leaders who see themselves to be psychologically superior from those they lead—a necessity in order to sustain themselves and those who gather in tribalistic groups—depending upon their power and its character to be superior to others of its own kind.
The “We” is exclusive. The “Us” is separate in an ambiguous tribal family lineage. The “others” are a distant object without regard or concern for, other than in necessity and need of their product and resources they occupy.
The contrast of the universal “us” in a kind of questionable image of “brotherhood” in inclusive acceptance, alliance, and degree of concern, rests at varying distances of existence on the fringes of power.
There seems to be a secondary sense of self in an inclusive acknowledgement belonging to life, all life, that embraces the “Us” in a more universal and inclusive sense of “Me” that goes beyond the “others” seemingly created in the polarizations of civilizations, their leadership and competition in survival and control. This is swelling in what is now a global community of civilizations joining in a world civilization yet to find its way beyond its neural history of the past.
What I “like”, what I “want” and/or envision of my place and importance must meet this psychosis of egotism as something “given” and embedded in the neural matrix of the human animal. And we must then seek ways and means to a positive management and control of both.
There is a critical need of conscious, self aware, civilized masters and leadership that is now essential in order to serve the collective survival and evolution of the human species on a planetary scale.