Friends, I’ve finally worked out what is wrong with the human race. The problem: evolution has let us down!
We have have been evolving over hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of years. How do I know? Well, we have lost much of the hair we used to have, our heads have become more rounded (and, for some, bigger), our tails have fallen off, we have become taller, and our male genitalia has increased in size from that of the Great Apes and females have developed larger breasts.
But what about our intelligence? Has it kept pace with our physical development? The answer is clearly NO!
Now it is obvious that we do have a twisted, sick type of technical intelligence. It has enabled us to build nuclear bombs enough to blow up a universe or two, rockets that can hit a small target on the other side of the world, satellites that spy on every nation, depleted uranium explosives that keep on keeping on, germs that can wipe out the human race, chemicals that do terrible things to peoples’ eyes, skin and lungs, fighter jets that can break the sound barrier and take off vertically, submarines that are nuclear powered, etc. Aren’t we clever?
The answer is clearly, NO! We haven’t got enough intelligence to work out how to stop wars, how to live together in peace, or how to stop destroying our world.
So what is the answer to this paradox? It’s obvious. We need to return to our roots.
Obviously we need to throw away all our war toys and our technology and return to the caves from whence we came. Then, while we huddle around fires and grunt, perhaps, over another million years or two, our intelligence might broaden and we might be able to think sensibly about social issues and how to engender cooperation between nations rather than endlessly beating our chests and fighting and killing and being consumed by greed.
Eventually, we might be able to see that war is barbaric and only interests people who best can be described as psychopathic morons. Eventually we might understand that our world must be protected rather than raped and pillaged by entrepreneurs who can best be described as greedy morons.
Eventually we might understand that there is no God or life after death and send all religious fraudsters on their way. Eventually we might spend our lives living with and accepting reality while trying to make life as enjoyable as possible for everyone via sharing and caring.
Eventually we might think that getting a job is for slaves and instead involve ourselves in painting and sculpture, growing our own crops, weaving our own garments, writing plays and poetry, discussing philosophy, living in communes, worshiping nature and the seasons, etc.
Is there no other solution, you ask? Well there is. We could engage in a bit of genetic tinkering, perhaps broaden our intelligence that way. But it’s unlikely that those who rule us would agree with that because they don’t want anything to change, not while they are manipulating us for their own benefit: for money, for power.
But if we don’t go back to the caves or change our genes, we will soon end up in a nuclear holocaust and it will be game over for humans and planet earth.
If that happens, what is our legacy? To have been the only species which destroyed itself and its habitat, a species that was selectively intelligent but, in the main, in all the wrong areas?
You know, we may end up returning (to the caves) out of necessity rather than choice depending on how our future unfolds. After more thought, referring to one of my earlier posts, descrimination is as far as I believe a learned responce. And to top it off is the cause of all wars and conflicts. Any time a person, or group of persons feel more entitled to anything than another person or persons presto we have descrimination. Things like land, food or resources seems like what most conflicts are about. Peace would reign eternal if we could all share our resources equally among our fellow inhabitants on the planet as (one) people. Of course I see many obsticles to this realisation. For one Americans enjoy our present rate of consumption as do many Western nations. Don’t know that everyone would be willing to make the sacrafices necessary. The biggest obsticle would be the rich, but then thats how they got rich. Well, back to the caves, I percieve it would be communal living where the chores were shared among the dwellers. Maybe better by choice than necessity. Good times to all!
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David G Reply:
July 24th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Yeah, if the nukes start falling, caves may provide the only shelter for any survivors, 76-water.
How we got into this predicament is interesting. It certainly wasn’t because of our superior intelligence.
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Well the way I see it we do have the intelligence for stopping war, making peace, eliminating poverty, but we do have the intelligence for the opposite. Most chose not to exercise the other intelligence and it suffers from a metaphorical atrophy and disappears. Kind of like if you spend your entire life hating and destroying, I doubt you would have much compassion and love. maybe a twisted love… like how Pax Americana is supposed to be a twisted peace via American domination.
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Returning to our roots is important. Returning to the land – to our stewardship of it; to our kinship to it. But first, we must oust all those who wage wars. We must defeat hatred that is sourced by our governments. We must act against the LIES which cause the wars. We must REFUSE to war. Governments MUST be held accountable and those in decision making capacity MUST be made to face consequences. Until the ‘governments’, particularly those waging war are incapacitated, we can never hope to accomplish peace.
When the power of Love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
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Damian, my thesis is that if we have the intelligence, why are we in the mess we are in? I say the proof is in the pudding so to speak.
But I certainly agree that, if you spend your life hating and destroying (like America), then you don’t develop compassion and love!
Amerikagulag, Governments are not accountable in the main and those who participate in them do not face the consequences of their actions (like Bush who attacked Iran or Obama who escalated the war in Afghanistan). And, likewise, how do we oust those who wage war?
We, the people, are dumbed down and powerless. We are manipulated by Governments who in turn are manipulated by corporations, clerics, Business Tycoons,militarists, etc. How do we change this dynamic?
If we were more intelligent and better educated, we could change our world.
Cheers.
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OhBoy!! After reading the news today, maybe should start looking for a cave.
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Which particular news item made you think of this option, 76-water?
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76-water Reply:
July 25th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
Well David, There are so many to choose from.(grin) However it was the news of the House bill 1553 being passed which gave Israel an American (Okey Dokey) to atack Iran and that we (Americans) will back them in whatever they decide to do. Here I’ll send you the link. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr1553/show
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David G Reply:
July 25th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Thanks for the link, 76-water. I put this article on the Daily Kos. The number of comments I got from people who have no idea what America is up to or that it is planning to nuke Iran was unbelievable. It makes me despair.
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David, I join you in the despair thing. We the people of the U.S. have no say in what our government does. We are nothing more than innocent bystanders as those above us do their willing. My only wish is that the world does not hold us responcible for the actions of our government. So sorry to have sent you bad news. Your friend, 76-water; Good times to all!!
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