#anthropocentric

[aezterx]

[stoicmike]

Try not to always be thinking like a human. -- Michael Lipsey

[mrrenhoeck]

After-party.

[fieriframes]

[9 images. Guy Fieri wearing a suit and tie. A man standing in a kitchen. A man looking at the camera. A close up of a glass. A man standing in a room. A close up of a piece of cake. A close up of a bottle. A close up of food. Captions: And did those feet in ancient times Trod on America's pastures of green? And did that anthropocentric God Wane with their thoughts and beliefs all unseen? I don't think so He's up there with the others laying low Vying with those Who you've traded your life To bless your soul]

[there-is-a-way-forward]

imho what it “means” to be human is to have human dna (or, perhaps, considering the unknown possibility of other species experiencing something equivalent to otherkinity, id’ing as a human). anyway i hate these kinds of posts because they reek of anthropocentrism, this search for “what it means to be human” as though the fact that we’re human is the important part not the fact that we’re people/alive/sentient etc.

[historicrecurrence]

Dune#3

[entheognosis]

Our Attitude Toward Aliens Proves We Still Think We’re Special - Nautilus - Pocket

Why we downplay Fermi’s paradox.

... our institutions are still profoundly anthropocentric. We deny even the most basic rights to other parts of nature, including our close animal relatives, some of which share more than 97 percent of our DNA. We pollute our environment with close to zero regard for the well-being of its ecosystems—and we fight pollution only if and when it inconveniences us. Scientific experiments on human beings are not only illegal, but are considered barbarous even when they could provide some useful information. This is in sharp contrast to our practice of experimenting on lab animals, hunting foxes, or killing bulls in the arena.

[jamesmckinnon]

Climate Change