—“So you think you came from a monkey?”– Jesse Daughtry
I know for certain I evolved from a common group of ancestors to the other great apes – yes.
And, yes, I know for certain people that disagree are lying on purpose, or lying, as do all addicts, to obscure and justify their addiction to the psychological returns on some other lie or set of lies.
Furthermore I know because of my genetic predispositions my clan has evolved more so than most other humans because we lack pre-human demand for empathic and intuitionistic stimulation in order to maintain attention, reason, judgement, and decidability.
And yes I know that those of us who are more evolved in these abilities that provide us with agency, are burdened by the remaining less evolved, undomesticated demi-human animals, who are still dependent on herd following intuitions, like the other animals we have domesticated.
The difference is only that demi-humans, fed a perpetual diet of addictive lies providing the sensation that they are still welcome in the herd, can be ruled, and taxed, more cheaply and productively than they can be enslaved like their ancestors.
Unfortunately we were too optimistic after the enlightenment and industrial revolution, and gave the demi-human half domesticated animals the vote – and for unsurprising reasons think they are conscious, rational, and possessed of agency, rather than semi-conscious, addicted to comforting lies, slaves who must be herded with more lies, like any addict.