…As much as humanity has put into solving none of its own. Through the generations, down the millennia, nothing is solved. 7 billion people don’t seem to have a clue or any idea of how to have a clue. (8 billion if you include politicians, and you shouldn’t.)
The history of human stupidity has a long and staggeringly undistinguished lineage. The most obvious things are turned into debates, personal decorations, digressions, wars, and inevitably, total non-achievement. To think that a bit of genealogical twitching could achieve so little.
Being ineffectual, in fact, is now a sort of social expectation. Failure is acceptable, and it’s a bit tactless if you’re not a total disaster. The successful are the minority. That feudal obscenity is a good all-purpose working demographic for the whole of human history, proving that societies simply do not work at all.
Quite the opposite; creating problems is considered to be a form of success. If you become a sort of extension constipation for your society, you must be doing something right.
History is full of revered idiots. Usually, for the scale of their times, they were capable of completely obstructing human progress. That’s exactly what they did.
What would the 20th century have been, without all the mindless hatreds, ideologies, and other useless ephemera? The legacy of the world’s most murderous century to date is proof of lack of intelligence on just about every possible level.
The 21st century so far is trying hard to follow this noble legacy of total failure. Where would the world be without ignoramuses, sycophants, and snivelling, simpering nobodies?
If nothing else, this proud history of non-achievement is consistent:
- The next two generations are truly screwed. Thanks to an almost divine level of incompetence, they will have no money, no homes, and no future. They will live in what is effectively a sewer, surrounded by toxic materials and other totally avoidable issues.
- The problems that have caused this situation were never solved; they were simply amplified. No effort whatsoever has gone into solving any of these issues, and from the institutionalised apathy of Western societies, absolutely nothing is likely to change.
… And yet there is hope
Oh yes. Well may the world look forward to more dazzling examples of faecal mental magnificence. How one may rejoice in the furthest squeaking ineffectuality from some highly trained moron. More statesmanlike pure ignorance may even cause parades of elite ignoramuses. More putrescent greed oozing out of chubby little fraudulent hypocrites may cause people to question the need for sex. How wonderful to celebrate yet another decade/century/millennium of wondrous ineptitude.
How pleasant to bask in the tedious lives of proven idiots. Living vicariously through an overpriced LED screen, one may wonder at the sheer grandeur of this seemingly endless epitome of utter futility. How desperately you need a toaster that can do cabaret acts. Something to hope for, you say? Lucky you.
Yes if you’re under 30, it’s a great time to be alive; just not on Earth right at the moment. This is one of the all-time high points of complete and utter inability to manage anything. Your best hope lies in doing exactly the opposite of what everybody else is doing.
If you’re under 10, congratulations. You have the worst possible role models in human history. This lazy collection of subhuman nothings, however successful, and the last outtakes of mediocrity. This, kids, it is how to do everything wrong. Just don’t do it.
What about the poor starving rich, you ask? These oppressed souls will continue on their mindless quest to their own unique form of poverty. Only they can achieve the levels of moral impoverishment, ethical inadequacy, and spiritual nonexistence required.
Recently, a new form of interminable intellectualism (aka interminablectuallism) has been developed to solve even fewer problems. This verbose descent into negative evolution is its own form of mass extinction. Drowning itself in its own sententious sewage, the sweet gargling sound of the future can be heard clearly.
And the litany of hope just goes on and on. Consider the truly non-existent media images. Sexless, lifeless, loveless, mindless, and pointless, you can actually hear history at work. In these obituaries to everything and everyone, the worthless puke of generations of barely digested knowledge form an enchanting backdrop.
These self-idolising sputum hide behind quotes they don’t understand. They used the past as an excuse for the present, and never do a damn thing. Wisdom is now a commodity, and like most commodities, crap is the market norm. The ideas of peace and some sort of certainty in one’s life may be in higher demand than ever, but the market will make a point of never meeting that need.
What if human intelligence actually existed?
If there was such a thing as human intelligence, perhaps it would address some of these issues. Perhaps in one maniacal burst of logic, the ancient problems would finally be shut down. Perhaps something might actually get done about something for once.
The best way to achieve human intelligence is probably by subversion. So many incessantly clever people seem to think that doublethink works. Try triple think, or quadruple think. It’ll take them decades to catch up. One thing these morons can never do is stay in contact with progress. They are always at least 50 years behind the times.
Better still, as long as they think they’re being clever they can be made to do anything. Perhaps even do something right occasionally. It would be worth a try.