RE: Thoughts on society and the human race
July 23, 2011 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2011 at 12:17 pm by Napoléon.)
(July 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm)Ace Otana Wrote: Ah, but we are more alike than unalike my brother. Seriously though, they are powerful because of their corporation and we are self endangering because our our ability of thought. They aren't a risk to themselves, we are. Who's doing it right?You've moved the goalposts still. I was only responding to the notion that ants are smarter than us. I don't doubt we can still learn certain things from them.
We can learn a lot from them I tink.
Quote:True, they cannot advance. But they have what we don't. Corporation, functionality, order and efficiency. All we need to do, is find a way to teach ants to speak English so they can tutor us.Too bad they are too stoopid to understand language enit.
Quote:In certain aspects they are smarter, agree to disagree you suborn French bastard?Okay in what aspects? They may do things more efficiently but it does not necessarily lead to being smart. A cheetah can run a hell of a lot faster than us, that must mean it's smarter. That's the line of reasoning you are using.
Quote:Like missile silos...It takes intelligence to build a nuclear device, it takes madness to use it. I think your little scenario got that bit confused
Kid: Dad what's that going up into the sky?
Dad: That's what's going to send us and every living organism on the planet into extinction.
Kid: Why?
Dad: Because we're the smartest things to have walked the planet.
Kid: But....we're about to wipe ourselves out?
Dad: Yep.....smartest things to have walked the planet. It takes intelligence to build one of those.
Kid: I thought it took madness to accomplish that.
Quote:Like corporating as a single species? Yeah, that won't work. Too intelligent for that.
No, it's that our social dynamic doesn't allow us to. We are simply not capable. In a sense, we actually ARE too intelligent for it. In order to do what you want us to do, it relies on people not having opinions, or brains, or thinking. It just requires them to perform tasks continuously without question.
Let's just say I win and call it a day.
