Our society is a myth. No matter if people see it or not it doesn't make that statement any less valid. Mankind believes the Earth was created for them. That the world will end with the end of mankind. That's why what has happened to the Earth has happened. We believe that the world was made for us. If it was made for us then there is nothing we can do to hurt it. Why would it be made for us if our actions have consequences behind them? I'd compare our society today of that of ancient Greece. Looking back on it their ideals of gods etc is what we call mythology today. Looking back on this time thousands of years from now, what is keeping future societies from calling this period and our ideals mythological as well?
The tension between the narrator and Ishmael was very noticeable at the beginning of the chapter as it is in most relationships where you're not seeing eye to eye. However, as the chapter progressed the narrator began to see from Ishmael's eyes. The narrator began to see mankind as Ishmael saw mankind. As a cancer to the Earth. Mankind having the feeling the Earth was made for them allowed them to do with it what they want. Ishmael has the narrator picture the Earth without mankind. The narrator pictures it from space and tells Ishmael that he wouldn't want to see it from the surface. He was afraid to picture it from the surface.
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