ANTHROPHOBIC

ANTHROPHOBIC:

Don’t believe it is an actual word but I have been using it for decades:

Earlier this century my youngest granddaughter said “Nan – you are one!”

I used to think there was something wrong with me because I didn’t accept our cultural norms as absolute:

I remember when women had no rights nor status

Couldn’t buy a house couldn’t have a bank account without husband’s or father’s signature

And landlords refused to rent to separated women

If you were not a white heterosexual male you were nothing

Women, gays, those with a disability and people of colour now have rights

But in our culture

Sociopaths succeed

Psychopaths are glorified

And  mindless automatons fit in

Mostly people are good to me

But this isn’t why I dislike humans

Because of our culture influenced by the religion that Constantine had set up to control  his empire

Other lifeforms and the planet we live on are not respected

Humans believe they are superior and more intelligent than otter life forms when in my opinion the opposite is so

They label other life forms as vermin

Two weeks ago I watched a young rat die from ingesting a bate I noticed it at 0630 and it was still alive at midnight

My inability to keep my balance and coordinate prevented me from drowning it which I would have done  if I could

Our culture labels cultures that live in harmony with the environment as primitive and inferior

When the religion Constantine had set up took over people of the old religion were tortured until they confessed to worshipping a devil and then burned alive

I am hoping that ahimsa will become the norm