(Voiceover by Ryan Remington from
The essay "Better Living As An Animal")
I feel insignificant in my every day life.
I don't need to comprehend the vastness of space to
Realize just how small I am
There are over 7 billion human beings exactly
Like me on this planet and I rank somewhere in
The middle of them in every conceivable category
I'm not the fattest, not the skinniest.
Not the smartest, and I'm not the dumbest
I'm simply mediocre in comparison
We are a bell curve of mediocrity
Yet, given the amount of people here,
We still look higher and lower to understand how
Important we think we are.
We've explored the edges of our galaxy with telescopes and
Theoretical physics and unmanned spacecrafts.
We've explored the very building blocks of
Existence with microscopes and molecular biology and particle physics.
We went so far as to create the gods of Olympus
Before we understood Earth's rotation and the Avengers after we
Understood that constellations were nothing more than coincidence
We ascribe meaning to orbital magnetism and birthdays
We believe in a creator that formed our existence,
Because we can't believe that we're just random chance
We can't accept the truth that
We are a sentient byproduct of evolution
We can't accept the fact that we are
An organic program written by a thousand chimpanzees with a
Thousand typewriters over the course of a thousand millennia
But, we are
We are happenstance
We are inevitable
We are meaningless and insignificant
In the grand machination of existence
We are not special nor gifted nor graceful
We exist as a means to a biological end
We are, merely, a complex stage of evolution
Pretending to be artists and visionaries
In truth... we are future cave paintings and myth