"People often ask why I love elephants so much. Zongoloni's story is a big reason why."

[misanthrope]

5. We continually seek to regard ourselves in an elevated position above the rest of nature

namely because we choose to focus on our potential alone. However, when you look at the full spectrum of homo sapiens' presence and effect, our unwarranted arrogance is apparent.

I see glimmers of our better selves, of our noble aspects and it's bolstering. Unfortunately it's also an outlier.

We are capable of so much more. So, so much.