> Human history is filled with examples of us thinking we are special or at the center of the universe, etc That behavior pattern is new, and it goes back to s

> Human history is filled with examples of us thinking we are special or at the center of the universe, etc That behavior pattern is new, and it goes back to semitic religions. Otherwise before those the general religious format was that humans were part of a larger world in which everything was connected and never everything else was 'for the humans'. (Semitic religions explicitly say that).