Re-Enlightenment

Look at the human body as a weapon. It is embarrassing. No claws. Fingernails that lose a fight with cardboard. No fangs. Flat little teeth that struggle with a tough steak. No armour. Skin a bramble can open. No fur. Cold kills us in a night. No speed. A squirrel outruns us. A toddler loses to a goose. No strength. A chimp half our weight could take us apart. No venom. No shell. No horns. No wings. Pound for pound, the softest large animal in the field. And we hunted every one of them to the edge. Because everything went into one organ instead. The brain. A fifth of your energy, run by a body that skipped every other upgrade. And it is built from animal food. DHA from fish and meat. B12 found in no plant alive. Cholesterol, the scaffolding of every brain cell you own. The ape that started eating meat grew the brain. The brain made the spear. The spear ended the argument with every animal that had the claws and the fangs and the speed. A soft, slow, clawless creature became the apex predator of the planet, on the strength of one organ made of the exact food we are now told to cut out for our health. We ate our way to the top of the food chain. Now they want us to eat our way back down.