What is Man?

So, in general I attempt to stay out of politics. (My nose seems longer today.) I understand that much of what is going on is outside my expertise, and seeing as I should should listen and learn, I do not habitually make my own opinions known. (What is that burning smell? Just my pants.) I don’t even listen to politics. (Why does the air get so hot when I say these things?)

So you know, as a neutral, unpartisan voice, everything I’m about to say is true.

The facts, as they appear: Trump called some people animals, and as with every breath our president takes, hysterics soon followed. One aspect that interested me about this is how I’ve been told through every grade of school that we are animals. I remember our teachers stressing the point: we are just animals. Humans are just another creation of our earth-mother, not any greater—most certainly not greater—than any other creature in nature.

This was taught with a moral imperative. We were to avoid the hubris of assuming some backwards notions regarding a regrettable, no-right-minded-people-take-seriously belief in some sort of God who loved us. We were only material, after all. The universe is not such that we are special, as there are many planets with alien life—other dimensions—universes of every possibility—other gods if need be. What idiot could think we were made in the image of God?

President Trump is, as far as I can tell, right about the nature of MS-13, though I only know about them because of his comments. The question arises, even with his words taken as far out of context as a rocketship is able to carry them, what’s the point? This seems a dilemma: either humans are animal, in which case Trump is right, or we are the seat of an internal struggle between the divine and nature, a tightly balanced harmony of animal and god called man, in which case it is possible that individuals fall as low as Trump describes them, animals.

Or, you could listen to someone who actually knows what it is he talks about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgMNMWS_sc