Week 4- The Pattern of Life

Many abilities that we attribute to super heroes are skills possessed by animals all around us. The ability to fly, run extremely fast, hear things undetectable to the human ear. Perhaps animals don't have human intelligence but that presumes that we are the pinnacle of evolutionary development. Even different people differ in intellectual capacity and the like, but we afford everyone the same dignity and respect don't we?
Or maybe we don't. Of course we don't, perhaps as individuals but not as a species.

If animals were less intelligent and we treated them poorly just because of that, wouldn't that say more about how pitiful we are? Perhaps the technocratic ruling elite trained us so well that anything that doesn't rank high in the service to the system is rendered less than or even useless.