are we in danger of getting too victorian hierarchical and darwinistic?

modern humans, far from being the pinnacle of evolution on earth, are more like just one strain of a number of different primate lines which have attained sentience in the last few million years.

why does evolution have to go ``upwards``?

the eath did very well for many aeons before humans existed, occupied by non-sentient life forms in their trillions.

does stewardship even require conciousness? in fact,we could say non-sentient stewardship is much better than sentient, if you measure by length of time.

should we go back to being ``dumb animals``? once self awareness is gained, it`s a very hard thing to give up. maybe impossible.