This is a peek into my demented Emily brain… last night as I was falling asleep I was thinking to myself that I don’t understand human people, and that cat people (as in cats, not people who own cats, ’cause cats are people too in my book 😁) have always made a lot more sense to me. And that led to me wondering about what a cat led society would be like. Like, what if cats had evolved into the dominant species here on earth instead of humans?
Would they continue to be solitary? Or would they be like the lions, who band together to take down big game in Africa? And cats are pretty much strictly carnivores, and environmentalists are always complaining these days about how much pollution it takes to raise meat and how going vegetarian would be much better for everyone… so in a cat led society, how would that affect things?
But then again, maybe because cats are solitary they wouldn’t have a bunch of kids the way humans do. Cats are predators and they do what they have to do to survive, and maybe they would feel that way about having kids too, like, this kitten will grow up to be a competitor with me over resources, so maybe I shouldn’t have as many kittens.
And then I had this crazy thought that since cats do tend to be less social and don’t have much in the way of facial expressions, that maybe cats are kind of like autistic people. So would a society of cats be like a society of autistic people? And maybe a cat that was emotionally expressive and tuned into connecting with others would be like, their version of an autistic cat, that all of the normie cats would struggle to understand and be scared to try to raise.
I feel like maybe there’s a kids book in there somewhere but maybe I’m just in another one of my cracktastic moods. I always say I’m a not-so-evil evil genius and it’s totally true, haha.
But yeah, these are the things I think about in the wee hours of the morning while all you normies are fast asleeping. You’re welcome 😁