Well, I was actually looking at it from a different perspecitve I suppose. I was thinking of how animals don't have a verbally structured language like us that continually progresses into more words then George Carlin can insult. We also have decided to make pants and shirts and fruit of the loom underpants. We got real dressy along the way somewhere, as opposed to just hacking a buffalo's skin off and wrapping it around our genitles. Then there's this whole technology barrier. I don't know many porcupines that have a PC. I don't know many horses that use cell phones either. Most of them just produce horse-apples and graze and hope their back pain eases up because Sammy Steakeater has been riding him to the local saloon all week long.
I suppose I am basically saying that animals can do with just the basics on earth, while we feel that we must "expand our minds" while creating more and more greenhouse gas effects and become more attached to things. The desire I currently am working on is losing this stupid "attachment" emotion. I am not saying I want to become Mr. Spock or anything, but it would be nice to be less emotional about the loss of life. It should really be natural to us, yet we continue to pamper our young and treat them like little treasures instead of the little shits they really are...