Your’re not being fair to dark matter. Dark matter is like a cleaning deposit on a rental apartment. A deposit exists because it’s made but once made it cannot ever be seen.
Supposedly it has some effect on what is owed at the end of the rental but so far no one has been able to detect just what this effect is or how it works.
The truly scientific explanation is that the deposit helps to “keep our rents competitive” but how a rent called a deposit does this is beyond the understanding of the average layman.
So when anyone talks about dark matter just think of your last cleaning deposit.
And to the question of whether the earth occupies a special place: Just recall how the landlord treated you to get you to move in, not the eviction notice when you were three days late with the rent.
Please come down from the mountain and help me understand what a cleaning deposit has to do with dark matter!