The Human Race

Me?

Manipulative?

Yeah, sure. But isn't it the nature of mankind to turn his garden into oil drums and football stadiums?

Besides, I don’t hurt anyone.

Unless they’re in the way.

Arrogant?

Certainly you would be arrogant if you had stood speck-like on a frozen rock beneath a bone-white moon, and endured.

Surely I'm vain, because within me lies all that a head and a hand can do, yet I don't ignore the worms that will use me like a dinosaur skull.

Besides,

All this stuff has made me self-conscious.