Are Humans Stupid?

One could, without exaggeration, jokingly or seriously say that humans have conspired in their intelligence to extinguish the human race. Too sarcastic? Too exaggerated or even too conspiratorial? Perhaps not look at us! I don’t like to use the word stupid, yet, while writing this, it seems the perfect word choice.

We believe we, the human species, embody intelligence and brilliance, and that we are above all other (animal) species.

We are quite arrogant, considering that no animal consciously destroys the environment on which its survival depends on, invents machines that kill its own kind, or uses technology and a diet that all produce garbage. We, humans, spread diseases, manufacture weapons for mass killings, start wars, torture, and kill, and act without first thinking about the consequences.

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How did it all start? With Adam and Eve or when the first monkey could walk upright? Was everything still okay back then, and we only became more and more stupid over time? Hard to tell, but what is certain is that today we seem “stuck” and are developing backward rather than forward. We don’t know how to use much of what is called innovations properly, one of the main reasons many catastrophes have happened on earth -ecological, economic, and also psychological.

Were we stupid from the beginning? I am not sure, but there is a lot of evidence for human madness, a lot of evidence of the shrinkage and mental regression of the human brain. What happens next? Accept stupidity and total destruction?

In most people, the love of evil, the pleasure of destruction, and the brutal and bitter, harsh approach against innocent and harmless living beings can be found to varying degrees. Human intelligence leads to something Germans call SCHADENFREUDE*, and a sadomasochistic conspiracy to eradicate humanity and life in this universe.

We just don’t make any sense. We act stupid!

As animals expand their abilities and evolve in the process, humans at the same time degrade their abilities and replace themselves with another alien/robot intelligence that, and that’s the worst scenario, could control them tomorrow. The proof of our un-intelligence lies in the fact that, despite all these facts, we continue to believe that we are becoming more and more intelligent.

How do we make people think for themselves? How do we motivate them and make them humble and grateful so that they can improve and make the world a little better, healthier, and happier?

Perhaps what hinders us from accepting our stupidity are pride and self-protection.

If we recognize our “madness” and we would deconstruct and destroy our myths, beliefs, orientations, values, and ideals, perhaps that would give us a healthy sense of fear and insecurity. I am not talking (writing) about the fear of almighty angry gods or an afterlife spent on the rotisserie grill over hell’s fire, but the fear of our own shortcomings.

When we would feel small and little, perhaps then we could raise to greatness.

In all areas of life, so far, humans only have taken steps backward, and the worst thing is that we are not even aware of it. We live with the illusion that we are the most intelligent, the strongest, and the smartest. However, we forget that this is only a self-hypothesis because the reality is shocking. Without a doubt, humans are the most destructive element on this planet.

We are destroyers and inventors of the doctrine of racism and the concept of race itself. We are murderers and animal killers, criminal and environmental terrorists, discoverers of weapons of mass destruction, rapists, inventors of a dietary style that brings death, inventors of a technology that leads to more disasters than solutions, story forgers, inventors of medicine, which often only cures symptoms, rather than the causes. We are destroying the planet we live on!

Does that sound intelligent?

Sometimes I wonder if there are other life forms out there and how I could warn them about us? “Don’t come here. People on this planet are stupid!”

How our planet must look to them?

Let’s spin this tale further. How about the gods?

If the sons (and daughters) of all current prayed to gods would be sent to earth again to save and/or enlighten us, what would they find, and more importantly, how would we treat them? Would we welcome them and embrace their wisdom, or would the daughters of the gods end up in prison, be forced to have human babies, and end up in mental institutions afterward? Would we torture the sons of the gods in laboratories so we could study the brain and find out how the gods work?

Far stretched?

Perhaps my headline is wrong and I should remove the question mark and make it a statement.

Humans are stupid!

Without people, the world would be better off.

*) Schadenfreude is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is a borrowed word from German, with no direct translation,