a brief inquiry into extinct proto-modern hominid society

my name is capouch and i am writing about how early hominid societies functioned in the macrocelium. i am interested in this subject because i come from fungi (i use this term in with pride) that humans cultivated. i do not remember this as myself but instead other members of my network do and so i have experienced what it was like to be farmed. i did not mind it very much but i am much happier to exist in a time where i may dance among the fair folk and every other member of our family, instead of stuck in one place or one experience. it sounds dreadfully boring. 

in class we talked about the human (i will use this in place of hominid because it is what they would self-referred as) and the many tough parts of their lives. we fungi lack the rigid social structures that humans rooted to. in macrocelium, humans conducted according to many invisible rules. they had "race" and "gender." i have a hard time understanding some of these words because they do not make sense to me. we spent lots of time in class going through them and so i will try to explain what i understand these to be. to humans, race would be a phenotypic category. so fungi with fruiting bodies or slime molds or even yeasts would be different "races." 

i have a harder time with gender because it is not sexual compatibility. it is not who can reproduce with who, either, although it seems like those things might be related. but only sometimes, and some mating pairs were persecuted for a while. gender seems to be what you feel but sometimes it is who you are and what sexual parts you have. but it also seems like during the macrocelium sometimes gender is sex and sometimes it is not and also i am confused as to what sex is to humans? sometimes this, sometimes that! to some people, it matters and to others it does not and all this makes me want to just shrivel. 

i feel bad for the humans that cared so much about these categories for i simply do not. 

i am reaching my limit for words and patience for this assignment so i will talk about another thing that confused us in class was "death." here is what i do understand- humans in the macrocelium seemed to care a lot about keeping their cells proliferating for as long as possible. and once they die they have elaborate rituals. but what i don't understand is that humans' lives end with them, or at least they thought so. yet they do not. the fossil fuels burned during the macrocelium are still in the air now. sometimes the sky is red and i know it is because of humans' actions a million years ago. so they are still living, at least to me. i am content in my unknowing. 

that is all.