Myriam Ben Salem🦋
2 min readJul 24, 2024

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I wish we humans could elevate to the magical beings we call animals... We would have been living in a World of Pandora instead of this fucked up world...

Those pure and innocent beings who have been mistreated beyond imagination and exposed to all sorts of exploitation by the worst species Mother Earth has ever known:

1. Making them work for us as slaves,

2. Considering them as meat while humans are NOT carnivores by biology/nature,

3. Torturing them in our labs for our issues (vaccines) as if their lives were less precious than ours; many times, shamelessly for our luxury (beauty products),

4. Murdering them for their fur and other parts,

5. Buying and selling them as objects while they are living beings who were supposed to peacefully cohabitate with our species, etc.

As if it wasn't already too unfair, we permit ourselves to use them to downgrade humans! If this isn't the epitome of narcissism, I wonder what is...

I love studying history, psychology, science, and philosophy for it gives us some tools to better understand and make sense of this world!

Our first ancestors, the Homo Sapiens-- also called the anatomically modern humans, emerged around 200 to 300K years ago following a directed mutation.

This mutation gave birth to the creation of chromosome 2 from the fusion of two old chromosomes.

This magical by-product is responsible for about 86% of the neocortex of the human brain, where we attribute most of the faculties that give us our humanness: our ability for empathy & sympathy, to self-regulate our biology, implicitly stipulating our self-awareness.

That's when we made a jump from the middle of the food chain to the top. The most natural result would be to be filled with anxieties about this new leadership role in the ecosystem, which, unlike lions and sharks who earned theirs over millions of years, was GIFTED to our ancestors.

These could have chosen the difficult pathway to stay with the fear, feel grateful for the blessing, and decide to lead this world by heart, protect other forms of life and Mother Earth resources so that we could all cohabitate peacefully.

Judging by our horrific history, the chances are high that most of them went for the easiest pathway requiring the least amount of effort: creating a delusional narrative of specialness, resulting in grandiosity, entitlement, lack of empathy, and exploitation!"

I like to keep faith that the minority from each generation who chose the difficult pathway is growing from one generation to another one!

I love to dream about that moment in time, when so many people would be awakened, would have reprogrammed their subconscious, reconnected with their purest intuition, developed their critical thinking skills to the highest levels to spot the slightest and most subtle red flags to disable even the intellectually smartest perpetrators who would slowly but surely stop existing with no access to their food: the narcissistic supply (different depending on the sub-type); that moment in time when we would be complimentimg each other using the magical animals who would be wholeheartedly protected instead of being exploited! 💙

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Myriam Ben Salem🦋
Myriam Ben Salem🦋

Written by Myriam Ben Salem🦋

A fur Momma, animal lover & advocate, lifelong learner, storyteller, edutainer, and published author. I write personal stories and essays.

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