Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People

Somebody said, maybe D.H. Lawrence according to google, 'I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself' and thus robbed me of this quote I had devised myself for when I was a famous old wise man - 'Does the three legged dog stop wagging its tail?'
Indeed the ability to comprehend our own fate seems to be what sets us apart from 'the animals' but as evolutionists (aka scientists) will remind us, we are afterall hairless apes.
And our ability to comprehend our own fate does not yield much. Again I must return to Germaine Greer, for poigniant and succinctitudeness:

The disenchanted vision of these children has revealed the function of the patriarchal family unit in our capitalist society. It immobilizes the worker, keeps him vulnerable so he can be tantalized with security.

If we are so fucking great at comprehending our own fate, how do so many of us fall into this trap? I'm kind of continuosly amazed at how many people treat getting a house (and mortgage) as if it is some biological lifecycle phase and not a lifestyle decision. Yet more don't even treat it as an investment. It is a continuation of a script perhaps even more logical to them than going from high-school to tertiary.(in practice there's probably an inverse relationship between how logical someone finds going on to tertiary studies and how logical someone thinks buying a house is).

It would be much easier to know what to do in this time of global financial turmoil (itself an exageration, most people ever born never even experience having pocket change, so I fail to see how a financial crisis can be 'global' or say more 'global' than the current world food shortage)... anyway it would be easier to know what to do if the options were actually attractive in any way shape or form.

Lets face it, work just plain sucks. The good organisations for vision, often abuse the goodwill of their employees. The most caring nurturing organisations, are the ones that want devout serfs to be bound by mortgage and family to advancing their relatively meaningless cause.

All unanimously call us to 'face reality' whilst pointing at themselves, when reality is in fact in the opposite direction. Reality is tracking prey and killing it, feasting on its flesh before it spoils, laying about conserving energy, wiping yourself with a leaf, warding off competitors, seeking dry shelter and living off the land. Which no matter how many thin veneers of civilization you slap down, is what we have never managed to cease doing.

Animals don't commit suicide (the famous lemming incident was actually staged, one of the crew members herded them off a cliff using a big piece of chipboard). They starve to death when they over-breed, sure, they gnaw their own leg off to escape from a snare, lick their wounds, they move to higher ground, they migrate, when they are in danger they fight or flee. They don't attempt to fight reality and thus enable themselves to do nothing.

Only domesticated animals get fat, get diabetes, get poisoned by their environment. most invertebrates have been around as long as humans have, few have killed themselves off, most are due to human intervention. The 'learning' or 'reason' gene seems to trump the rest of evolution, but crocodiles have survived an ice age thus far, and sharks have not seen fit to actually evolve for millions of years.

The title of this post comes from Primus' EP, but I think it is good advice. People should remember they are animals first and people second.