In the end we're just a confused species who entered an awkward phase because our brains evolved too fast. We wound up with the ability to think abstract thoughts but without the wisdom to not identify with them. To invent nuclear weapons but without the wisdom to not build them.
The ability to conquer our ecosystem without the wisdom not to do so. To write vast tomes of philosophy that contain not one line telling us how to feel content on our own home planet. To construct entire belief systems that are utterly useless for living in harmony with what is.
I'm sure birds and whales went through awkward evolutionary transition phases as well. It's just that their transitions didn't involve giant prefrontal cortices in their skulls that make childbirth awkward and could easily give rise to the end of all life on earth.
I do believe we have the ability to make the jump from this awkward transition phase to a truly conscious species. But it looks like if we make it it's going to be by the skin of our omnivore teeth.
The birth of a human baby is difficult due to the size of our enormous, rapidly evolved brains relative to the more slowly evolved pelvic bone. The birth of a sane humanity will be difficult for similar reasons.
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