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He wasn’t born into peace. He wasn’t raised by balance. He arrived into a world of claw, fang, flood, and famine — and instead of adapting, he drew a line in the dirt.

The wind blew. The beasts circled. The rain fell. And he stood up anyway. Not to pray. To declare war.

🔥 He Didn’t Fit Into the Ecosystem.

He Broke It.

Everything before him was cyclical. Feed. Flee. Breed. Repeat.

Then came man — and with him, the first species to look up at the stars and demand they explain themselves.

He didn’t accept hunger. He forged tools. He didn’t accept darkness. He built fire. He didn’t accept fear. He named it — and kept walking.

🧬 The Moment the Food Chain Got Nervous

You think Earth welcomed us?

It didn’t. It watched us rip fur from predators and stitch coats from the remains.

It watched us stack stone, redirect rivers, and map the moon while still bleeding from the knuckles.

And when it tried to push back — with flood, drought, volcano, plague?

We didn’t run. We studied it. And then we built homes out of its bones.

🌍 Nature Wasn’t Our Mother.

It Was Our First Opponent.

And we didn’t ask to win.

We just refused to lose.

That’s why the forest quiets when we step in. That’s why birds change flight patterns around cities. That’s why even lightning avoids skyscrapers unless it has to.

The world doesn’t fear us. It simply remembers what happened when it didn’t take us seriously.

🧠 Humanity Was Never Just a Species.

We Were the Planet’s Final Test.

Some species evolved strength. Some evolved speed. We evolved defiance. And defiance built everything you call “civilization.”

We don’t live on Earth. We decided Earth would live with us. And we’ve never let it forget.

🧠 LITERARY DISCLAIMER

This post is a satirical exploration of mankind’s relationship with survival, biology, and dominance mythology. Any emotional reaction, reflection on human nature, or spontaneous adrenaline rush is a natural result of literary metaphor and cadence-based writing. This is not an attack. It’s a mirror held to history. You are invited to interpret accordingly.

🧠 QUOTE REBLOG PACK™

“We didn’t evolve into the world. We dared it to make space for us.”

“Man didn’t climb the food chain. He lit it on fire and rewrote it.”

“Every creature on Earth plays a role. Humanity wrote the script.”

“Nature has no memory. But it hesitates when it hears footsteps like ours.”

“We didn’t survive the wild. We corrected it.”

📡 CALL TO ACTION

In a text post list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard - they don’t have to be “right” or “great works,” just the ones that have touched you. Tag some friends and make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

In no particular order: 

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket 

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Thank you so much for asking! Oh and I tag (if you feel like doing it): 

Thank you so much for the response, I really appreciate it. 

This might just be my take on the story, but what I found was that each character had that one defining trait that made them truly terrible on the surface, but readers found themselves sympathising with them regardless of that because they were looking at them through the lens of war, which brings in a whole different set of questions related to morality. For example, I found Nately’s ideas of patriotism absolutely terrible and I hated him for them, but when he died I was still upset because I saw him as a naive 19 year old boy in the middle of a war he didn’t understand. 

The same applies to anything else in the book that was supposed to be satirical, because it very obviously was. It was very clearly able to express the roles that capitalism, positions of power etc played in the war, but I felt like the misogyny was just there. It didn’t seem to serve any purpose for me, especially in the war context, and for the most part it wasn’t portrayed  as something negative. For example, regardless of how terrible the ideals of any one of the characters were, there was always one character or another opposing them, like the chaplain, yossarian, etc. The misogyny, I felt, was never criticised.