Dark Matters Press | Written by Alexandra Chambers | 12th March, 2025
Humans generally believe that they are the dominant species, the architects of civilization, the pinnacle of intelligence, but what if our entire understanding of existence is nothing more than a function of our limited perspective? What if we are not the rulers of this world – but the parasites of something far greater? We dismiss microscopic creatures because they are too small to matter to us and we, too, might be microscopic to something unfathomably larger.
This is not just a philosophical exercise, it is a reckoning with the terrifying truth that scale is relative, and we might not be as significant as we think.
Right now, your face is home to millions of microscopic creatures – Demodex mites.
To them:
Your pores are vast canyons where they hide and feed.
Your eyelashes are forests where they mate, thrive, and die.
The oil on your skin is their entire ecosystem—their atmosphere, their ocean, their sustenance.
Their entire existence is spent living off of you, completely unaware that you are a thinking, sentient being.
They crawl, they feed, they reproduce, they die – and they probably never once question what they are a part of.
Now, imagine something far beyond our scale: What if we are to Earth what mites are to us? What if we are part of something so vast, so complex, so far beyond our ability to perceive that we mistake it for lifeless matter? The idea that our world is an ecosystem for something else is not just sci-fi horror. It is a legitimate possibility that our brains refuse to process.
What If Earth Is a Living Organism?
Some scientists and philosophers have explored the Gaia Hypothesis – the idea that Earth functions as a single, self-regulating organism.
If that’s the case, then:
Are humans a symbiotic species helping the planet function – or are we a parasitic infestation, consuming resources and multiplying beyond control?
The way humans:
Deplete the Earth’s natural resources,
Damage its delicate balance,
Multiply beyond sustainability – these mirror how parasites behave in biological hosts.
Maybe climate change, natural disasters, and pandemics are not random.
Maybe they are the Earth’s immune system trying to restore balance.
Maybe, just like a body tries to fight off an infection – the planet is trying to fight us off.
What If the Universe Is a Living Being?
Now, let’s scale up even further.
Our bodies are made of trillions of cells, each with their own tiny worlds inside them.
Each cell has:
A nucleus (its brain).
A network of systems (like a city).
Tiny organisms living inside it (just like bacteria live inside us) and yet, no single cell has any idea that it is part of a larger being.
What if we – our planet, our solar system, our galaxy – are just tiny, functioning components inside something beyond our comprehension?
What if black holes are the synapses of an immense, cosmic brain?
What if entire galaxies are just cells inside a body we will never perceive?
What if what we call “the observable universe” is just a single organ in something beyond imagination? If that’s true – then what are we? Just like the mites on human skin, we go about our lives, rarely questioning what we are really a part of. We cling to the idea that we are the highest form of intelligence – because we cannot comprehend what might exist beyond us. We assume that because we cannot perceive something larger, it must not exist.
Do Demodex mites know that we humans exist?
the existential terror of scale
Perhaps we are:
A symbiotic species – a vital function inside something greater.
A parasitic infection – multiplying uncontrollably until we destroy our host.
A temporary biological event – something that will one day be cleansed, forgotten, and replaced.
And if that’s true, then what does any of this mean?
Our wars, our achievements, our histories – all microscopic in the grand scheme of existence.
Maybe nothing matters……or maybe everything does, because even the smallest things play a role in the system they belong to. Either way – we are not the masters of reality, we are just a fragment of something far beyond our understanding.
And like mites crawling across a human’s face – we may never truly know what we are a part of.
Does It Matter? Knowing this – does it change anything?
Maybe not. Maybe it does. Maybe it reminds us that humility is necessary. That we do not know everything.
That there is always something bigger than us, no matter how much power we think we hold.
So, before we declare ourselves the ultimate intelligence, the apex species, the rulers of existence – maybe we should stop and ask – are we really in control?
Or are we just a microscopic civilization, crawling across the skin of something that will never even notice we were here?
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