RE: What are your political views?
July 11, 2015 at 10:12 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2015 at 10:14 pm by tjakey.)
Most would consider my political view far, far left. And they are. But I voted "other" because I consider human kind to be, at best, a child-like species that just recently climbed down from the trees. We have yet to find a way to govern ourselves in a fair and equitable manner. We have yet to invent an economic system that works. We haven't outgrown war, violence, hatred, tribalism, or religion. We are trashing our home planet with a reckless disregard that would surely astound any truly intelligent beings that were watching, putting a serious question mark on our claims of intelligence.
It seems much more likely that, on a scale of true intelligence as measured throughout the cosmos, we don't even make the graph. Maybe, in another million years of so, human kind will evolve into something worthwhile, but evidence so far suggests that is a far reach. More likely we will be a tiny burst of almost light that fades quickly into the night sky. Politics? The best we can do mimics that of our ape-like ancestors. Economics? The same. We are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and taking ourselves seriously while doing it. We yell “left” or “right” at each other as if we had any idea what we were talking about, and as if those two terms would have any meaning in a political / economic system that was actually the work of an evolved, intelligent, species.
We will never make much headway unless we grow up enough to realize just how primitive we are, how far there is to go, and how perilous the journey. And it isn't looking like we are that smart.
It seems much more likely that, on a scale of true intelligence as measured throughout the cosmos, we don't even make the graph. Maybe, in another million years of so, human kind will evolve into something worthwhile, but evidence so far suggests that is a far reach. More likely we will be a tiny burst of almost light that fades quickly into the night sky. Politics? The best we can do mimics that of our ape-like ancestors. Economics? The same. We are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and taking ourselves seriously while doing it. We yell “left” or “right” at each other as if we had any idea what we were talking about, and as if those two terms would have any meaning in a political / economic system that was actually the work of an evolved, intelligent, species.
We will never make much headway unless we grow up enough to realize just how primitive we are, how far there is to go, and how perilous the journey. And it isn't looking like we are that smart.
