By The Wandering Philosopher
What are we, as humans? We are animals, but we neglect our past. We are apes, yet calling eachother an ape is considered a lowly insult. We are human, but our humanity is often dismissed, in favor of a more productive pastime.
But how, in any way, do we really differ from animals? We simply tell ourselves that we are superior, and at one point that might have been true. But it seems now, with entities possessing humanlike skills and intelligence, what makes us so special?
While we are more technologically advanced then any Smiler or Skin Stealer, Facelings offer a strikingly similar reflection to our own insights. They aren’t just humans without faces, they’re a whole culture of people with their own names and customs, and we still differ ourselves from these entities. Why do we dismiss such a native species, while proclaiming ourselves the new one? Our own flaws limit our sight of not only others, but ourselves.
But Facelings are not the only intelligent entities in the omnirealm of the Backrooms. We have everything from godlike beings to (curable) infected humans, yet we classify them separate from our own. While yes, they are different in nature, why are we not considered an “entity”? Some of these beings far overwhelm our own understanding of the multiverse itself, yet our own conceited bias renders us blind to our own irrelevance.
Even if we do not consider ourselves an entity, what does being an entity entail? The definition of an entity is “the main inhabitants and life in the Backrooms aside from Wanderers”. Why must we call ourselves the higher beings? And what does calling them entities accomplish? Must they be native to the Backrooms? Must they defy reality as we know it? Or must they simply be mysterious?
Perhaps some of these beings are hostile, rudimentary animals, but some have such societal and intellectual skill to be integrated into our organizations, camps, and outposts. Perhaps we underestimate them, perhaps if we can cure enough Partygoers or Insanities we may find ourselves not only on the winning end of the wars we face, but in a more habitable Backrooms as a whole.
This is why I encourage such efforts as the Partygoer Cure Research Facility while decrying the Partygoer Extinction Army. While one attempts to solve the problem through curing the infected, the other just attempts to eliminate any and all Partygoers, some of which may possibly be curable.
Even some less animalistic entities, such as the Skin Stealer or Silbón, have the same potential for evolution that our very own primate ancestors held. We might see the evolution of such species unfold before our very eyes, but since we can’t do it now, the best course of action is to sustain their numbers at a healthy level, while protecting wanderers from them.
Now, seemingly this dilemma only I face comes to light. In an infinite omniverse of diversity, we as humans focus on ourselves, which is what we usually tend to do. But now that we have technology and research that far exceeds that of the Frontrooms, dilemmas we thought we may never have now rear their formerly obscured heads.