Misanthropy and projecting onto animals/pets is degrading human connection and fueling the loneliness epidemic.

All things are connected, and as such we should be kind to animals and nature. But not at the cost of putting our nose up to our own species.

People are tending to like animals more than people, namely their pets. But this is a projection. Animals cannot verbally communicate or use human facial expressions so we can't read them in the same way we read the behavior of other people, so we fill the gaps with whatever our wounds need.

When we judge others, we are judging ourselves. Our shadow. Animals don't have complex pychies like us and are almost completey reactive in behavior. We can project whatever our emotional needs are onto, say, a cat because it can't express otherwise. It lacks the complexity.

I witnessed animal control taking the time to search for an injured crow someone reported in a park full of suffering humans. A crow.

The human world will continue to be a lonely, performative disconnected game until we drop the "us vs. them" mentality and work together toward mutual progress for all humans.