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Termyn8or -> RE: Is the human species getting smarter? (9/9/2007 9:23:10 PM)
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Pet, you are dangerous.
Eventually you will have to be dealt with.
Don't you see how we have evolved, even our bombs are smart, even our TV sets are smarter than some. We have achieved to the nth degree. The skills needed to survive are no longer needed. This is handled by someone else. This gives us the greatest freedom.
We have the freedom to choose among the government approved insurance companies, we have the freedom to use a bank card instead of holding on to our own cash as an adult normally would. We have the freedom to vote for tweedle-dee or tweedle-dum. We have the freedom to use nutrisweet, and we will be given the freedom to go out in public again once we get those Depends. We have the right to drive on roads that are deplorable despite our freedom to pay top buck to get them fixed right. We have the freedom to give the money sucking government half of our money and then beg and plead fvor some of it back, years later when it is worth less than it was when they took it from us.
We are doing well in science as well, there was a ship used in WW2 that couldn't be repaired because "the technology doesn't exist anymore". We have nuclear tests all over the world, which the US government is too fucking stuopid to realize that they are causing, and at the same time farmers are shut dcown because an environmentally protected species of bird took a shit on their property.
Let's go into property for as minute. I bet that any and all of you, as well as your friends have never owned anything. The title to your car is not a title, it is a certificate of title. The manufacturer's statement is destroyed and you are issued this certificate of title, which means the state owns your car, and you never will. You are granted use of the car because you paid the purchase price instead of them, you are a serf.
It has been said that it is alot better to be a slave than a serf. I am starting to agree with that.
We cannot survive for a week without electricity and gasoline, but our ancestors somehow did it. Otherwise we would not be here.
I know one person who had a real deed to land, he couldn't get a loan on it though, so that has changed. Suffice it to say, you own nothing. YOU are property, and property can't own propeerty.
Monkeys learn to use a leaf from a plant to lure insects out for them to eat, insects actually have interspecies arraingments to survive. In the absence of things like that, we must hunt. Bears find a way to get fish out of the river, wolves find those sheep that are a bit slow. Whales find plankton and sharks find anything they can.
How do we measure up ? Anyone who thinks survival is not the most important skill needs to be reeducated. If you don't survive, your degree in engineering is no good. You can't take it with you and you can't pass it on. If you don't survive your Mazerati is no good, you can't take it with you. Your house is worth nothing now, not only can't you take it with you, you have no need for it anymore.
A few here might be able to survive after some holocaust that wipes out all technology, but many wouldn't. What do you think your problems would be if you were born 200 years ago, or 2,000 for that matter. If they had not survived, we would not be here. It really is as simple as that. I don't need a www this or that dot com to prove it, it is a simple fact, if our progenitors had perished, we would never have been born.
The human race is not getting smarter. With technology and the ease it bestows upon people, they get lazy. They cannot survive without the modern conveniences. I do not hold myself apart from that, it is true of me as well. It is simple, go camping, out in the REAL wilderness. Just how long do you want to stay there ? (that's even if you can survive). I can't even stand being out on my front porch at might because of the mosquitos. What I am seemingly accusing others of, I admit to about myself. I was born into technology, and actually my family seems to have a knack for it, but could we survive 'out there' ? I say no.
Think of yourself on a desert island, and then tell me all the good your calculus can do for you. (CL might want to take that one). If you are stuck with a bunch of aligators and shit outback, tell me how you can use the service manual for a Sony KP36XBR or a Harley there to survive. Tell me how your phone personality or your expertise in golf can help you survive.
You know the answer, but knowing the perspective of the question is harder. You and I belong dead without technology, we can't live without it. I shun it, but not completely, I am simply unable to do that. The power has gone out here, and so many people are in an uproar about it, but I can sit calmly in the dark, because nature made it dark.
People whio design nuclear bombs sometimes cannot dress themselves. Actually Einstein was known for having mismatched socks frequently. I have a high paying job that involves really heavy electronics, schematics and such, but I can't read or write. I mean if you write me a note in cursive writing I cannot read it, nor can I write it. And when I write anything it is not really formed very well. I consider this a cognitive disability.
People are not getting smarter, we are getting dumber. We were bad enough a couple decades ago when we could no longer get along without electricity, now people go into knipshits when their cellphone doen't work. I think advancements in technology have cost us big, something more important than all the bombs they can build. With the hubris of mankind is it not reasonable to assume that we can take what we want ? Moreover, this has gotten us into alot of trouble.
No, my friends, if the current trend continues we will be as dumb as dirt.
T
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