Meta-Humanity

Meta-Humanity [mee-tuh-hyoo-man-i-tee]: noun, 1. the quality or condition of being something more than human; mutant, mutate, enhanced-human, super-human, etc; 2. all humans collectively whom have something special about them and the way they see the world; 3. a shameless website made by a hack writer in order to promote his self-serving need for attention; 4. the quality of being a nerd; geek, dweeb, poindexter, dag, freak, etc.

The other day, I was out with this girl I have been seeing, and as the conversation so often does, the topic turned to shoes. She was wearing a brown leather boot-type thing with two or three clasps that ran down the side. I looked at them for a moment and gave her my honest opinion "They look like Jedi boots," I said. She laughed politely, probably not knowing whether to take it as a compliment or some sort of joke, but I was entirely serious in my assessment.

Friedrich Nietzsche, a 19th century philosopher, often talked of the idea of non-standard perspective. In other words, its the idea that two objects cannot experience the world in the exact same way. If a dog sees the world through black and white and a Predator sees the world through rainbow-like infrared vision than neither will look at something as simple as a flower and truly understand, or even perceive it, in the same way.

It makes a lot of sense, and Fredrick Nietzsche was a damn smart man. In fact, if he were alive today, CBS would have given him an afternoon talk show by now. He is famous for -among other things- proclaiming that God is Dead, he is credited for indirectly inspiring the idea of Superman (the ubermensch), and starting a serious opposition to conventional morality in his book, Daybreak, which I am pretty sure was the fouth novel in a series of books that starred an angsty emo teen girl who was in love with an immoral vampire.

All of this really just leads to my point: There is no right or even normal way to experience the world around us. Like the dog and the Predator we all see things and understand things differently. This is especially true for people who have grown up with different experiences, different thoughts, and with different ways of processing the world. One person may look at designer boots and think that they are nice because they go with their belt or purse, while another may look at them and see a resemblance to an accessory from a fictional universe.

There is no wrong answer, but I like to think that Meta-Humanity is for people like me who see the world from a very altered point of view. It's a blog for anyone who has ever caught the last snippet of a conversation and equated it to quote from a Matt Groening cartoon; who has looked up into the skies of New York City and hoped that maybe for a moment they might catch sight of a webslinging wallcrawler; who has given serious thought to making an emergency bag in case of a zombie outbreak.

Perhaps more importantly, this blog is for anyone who has ever wanted to follow their dreams; or for anyone who has ever looked out the window and wondered where their place was in this world. As Nietzsche would agree sometimes the world is literally what you make of it. This is my world. You don't have to be a nerd to appreciate it, but it helps.