The human race perspective on itself and on the world has changed through time and will keep on changing, all we need is to be patient
Humans' perspective was, still is and will always be extremely anthropocentric.
They see themselves as the center of the universe. Even after the three big revolutions of Copernicus, Darwin and Freud.
Copernicus discovered that our planet is not the center of the universe.
The sun and all the other stars are not circling the earth.
Humans know today that earth is just another planet, not particularly big or special in a not particularly big or special solar system.
Darwin taught us that not only are we not the center of the universe, we are not even the center of Earth. All the species have the same origin. We are just another animal as all the other species - nothing special about us on earth too.
Even the major discoveries in the genes field, that show the amazing similarities between humans and nonhuman animals, are not enough for humans to understand. Anthropocentric attitudes still haven’t vanished.
One of the most important beliefs, which makes animal abuse possible, is the idea that humans and other animals are in some way separated by an unbridgeable gap.
But humans, as you know, are great apes, not gods. Both genetically, and in terms of their behavior, humans are much more closely related to other great apes than these apes are to monkeys. Humans and chimpanzees have about 98.4% of their genes in common, whereas monkeys have only about 93% of the same genes as the apes. Genetically, gorillas are about twice as close to humans as they are to chimpanzees.
Compare this with the genetic difference between two similar birds such as the red-eyed vireo and the white-eyed vireo, which are 2.9% different genetically. In other words, these two very similar birds are twice as different genetically from each other as humans are from chimpanzees.
The amazing similarity is supposed to fundamentally weaken anthropocentric concepts that unfortunately most humans hold.
But when half of the Americans still reject the theory of evolution, superannuating anthropocentrism is far from reality.
Nothing fundamental has changed. Even those unequivocal facts are not convincing humans. They want to believe in their superiority because, among other excuses, it "justifies" their exploitation.
Freud generated the third revolution that was supposed to create another hole in the anthropocentric view. He said that not only are humans not the center of the universe, and the animal kingdom… they are not even the center of themselves.
Humans are not really in control of what they are.
They are motivated by unaware impulses and by systems and mechanisms in the sub consciousness that they don’t have control over and can’t change.
Freud taught us how important and critical are experiences in the first stages of life.
We can’t reach back to these points in life that designed us and change them.
We are not even really the masters of our own domain.
These theories are almost meaningless in the everyday life of most humans as a concept.
All these ideas are pretty simple, however most humans don’t grasp them.
The reasons for the gap between the revolution that these ideas were supposed to create, and the everyday reality, in which humans are still convinced and act as if they are the center of the universe, are coming from a motivation to keep humans’ superior status in the world. A status that was supposed to die out a long time ago.
The fact that most humans still believe in the existence of a god in the 21st century, after so many discoveries that refute its existence, is not an indication of ignorance (in many parts of the world it is, but that is not the case we are talking about now), or that the alternative theories are not of satisfactory. It is an indication of the motivation humans have to believe in a god, and that they are the center of its creation. There is nothing rational in that belief or in the belief that the human race is superior and the center of the universe.
There is nothing rational in discriminating somebody for his/her skin color, gender, ethnic origin or species. There are motivations to hold these perceptions and they are much stronger than the little rational thinking humans are capable of.
The fact is that most humans believe in a god, most humans believe that they are the masters of the universe and most humans are racists, chauvinists and of course speciesists.
The change should be internal and there is no chance for that to happen. The ones in power won’t voluntarily waive it. Learn from history, it always repeats itself. Only the setting and the performers change.
Apparently the three main revolutions are not really revolutions. It is not a matter of time. It is a matter of motivation, and rational arguments cannot beat motivation.
And on whose expense the request for patience is being asked anyway?
It is pure speciesism to prefer the interests of members of one species over others.
For some reason animal rights organizations "decided" that no matter what humans do, they must stay. The automatic chance humans get and the speciesist request to be patient won't be given in case of human victims.
A non-speciesist perspective, a point of view that doesn’t count the interests of one species over another, necessarily leads to the conclusion that this world has to be stopped.