Hello OccidentalEnclave peeps,

By way of introduction I'm more of a conspiracy theory tragic than someone with a serious horse in the cultural identity race. However one of my areas of interest is the question of the origins of cultural identity and how this relates to conflict within society, so I though I'd post on this.

Everybody knows that the human race is the dominant form of life on this planet.

But wait, did you see what I did there? Did you notice the fallacy that implies that you in error if you don't identify as human? I'm not talking about aliens or insects, this discussion is about people who look like humans but do not subscribe to the human condition.

By now you're probably thinking WTF is he talking about?, so I should describe the origins of humanism and how it come to be that it was considered to be a universal state of being within society.

Above all: "appellari ceteros homines, esse solos eos, qui essent politi propriis humanitatis artibus" (De re publica I, xvii, 28).[29] "Thus, not all men are humani or demonstrate humanitas. Only in the civilization of the Roman Empire and its social order does humanitas count as an educational value and socio-ethical virtue. Those who live outside the Empire are not yet fully 'human,' they are 'barbarians'."

http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol4/birus.html

What is being described here is the distinction made by Cicero and others which classified people as either homo humanus or homo barbarus, human or barbarian. Rome adopted Christianity as the official religion of the state, and thus the Roman Catholic Church formed an unholy alliance with the Roman body politic. By applying the religious title as a descriptive name, we get the universal church of Rome, since Katholika, from Catholic means universal or general.

catholic (adj.) mid-14c., "of the doctrines of the ancient Church," literally "universally accepted," from French catholique, from Church Latin catholicus "universal, general," from Greek katholikos, from phrase kath' holou "on the whole, in general," from kata "about" + genitive of holos "whole" (see safe (adj.)). Applied to the Church in Rome c. 1554, after the Reformation began. General sense of "of interest to all, universal" is from 1550s.

http://etymonline.com/index.php?search=Catholic

So there you have it. Humans are people who belong to the Roman security model who believe that all people are human. Other people are not necessarily barbaric, but cultural supposition of humanism implies a distrust of those who do not conform to the norms of human society.