Indifference to bugs
Aug. 19th, 2023 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillflightI always found it weird when people would freak out about bugs like they're going to kill us all. People would actually notice an ant on the sidewalk and comment on it, saying, "Eww, don't you just hate ants?" like it looked at them funny or something. My coworker comes into the room and announces, "If one more fly touches me I'm going to explode!" and I find it frankly bizarre that he would care whether flies are knocking into him. Flies! They're tiny and harmless, even if annoying.
I've learned that humans are strange about bugs. They are intolerant of them. They notice them unnecessarily. They see bugs as intrusions on their perfect civilized lives. Bugs are part of nature, so when one or several show up inside a building, it's like they're intruders on YOUR property. After all, what is civilization but humankind's property?
As a nonhuman animal, bugs don't bother me any more than grass or dead leaves bother me. They are just part of the environment -- same as I am. Neither of us are any more or any less.
I've learned that humans are strange about bugs. They are intolerant of them. They notice them unnecessarily. They see bugs as intrusions on their perfect civilized lives. Bugs are part of nature, so when one or several show up inside a building, it's like they're intruders on YOUR property. After all, what is civilization but humankind's property?
As a nonhuman animal, bugs don't bother me any more than grass or dead leaves bother me. They are just part of the environment -- same as I am. Neither of us are any more or any less.
