The Pinnacle of Intelligence and Intense Competition
This is what we get???
I just finished this book about a Nobel Prize winner who had a minor role in developing the atomic bomb. Initially he was reluctant to get involved but changed his mind when he realized that the enemy was dedicating their best scientists to being the first kid on the block with an extinction device.
The best and brightest minds around the world dedicating themselves to inventing a better way to kill each other. Fuck Yeah!
As if that was not fucked up enough, around the same time these geniuses looked to apply The Science to developing nuclear energy. Without a second thought they built thousands of nuclear reactors that spit out spent fuel that gets dumped into high tech fuel ponds and managed for thousands of years. This is the ultimate act of hubris because it assumes we will always have the means to service these deadly installations. We won’t.
These celebrated heroes signed our death warrant as a species. Even those positioned to survive the imminent collapse of civilization - the few remaining hunter gatherer communities - are doomed.
Intelligence is Stupidity. It fucking well is.
Highly educated people hate when I say that because they cannot stand the truth. And it makes a mockery of all that hard work they put in learning how to best pillage the planet. Imagine accepting this truth and realizing that your life has been dedicated to destroying the planet.
The Dumbest Species Ever?
Humans are fond of referring to themselves as the only intelligent species on the planet. I would argue that ‘intelligence’ is a dreadful burden that will ultimately result in our near-term extinction.
Meanwhile….
My tow truck guy shows me some racks from buffalo he has hunted… imagine running into whatever was attached to those massive horns at speed! The moral of that story is in the future get behind a Road Train and follow one of those trucks letting them smash the buffalos that run onto the highway.
Dogs eager to go for a walk…
I knew a man named Journey when I lived in Sedona. He was driving down Oak Creek Canyon, and an elk leapt from the side cliff and smashed through his front windshield. He was alright, the elk died. He thought it some kind of omen from great spirit.
I used to believe that just maybe the remotest tribes and villages might have a shot a survival - FE has disabused me of that notion. Damn.