I disagree that it insists on that. You can be part of the world but the world is still external to you.
I always say the world doesn't care about humans, what people call the 'real world' is just a bunch of made up rules people have decided on so we all get along, and a (different, smaller) bunch of people can make money out of.
Well, yeah. We, uniquely among life on earth, shape our world rather than suffer it. That's a good thing.
A beaver with his blueprint for a new dam would like a word.
Perhaps quotemstr should’ve written “architect” instead of “shape”. A beaver for example could never conceptualize, engineer or build the Taj Mahal—indeed any structure whatsoever other than what the beaver’s biological imperative demands of it.