(July 26, 2017 at 11:50 am)Astonished Wrote: Anyone see that movie Idiocracy? I think we're generally moving in that direction, at least in the States. Intelligence certainly has nothing to do with reproductive success. But once it becomes the dominant trait to simply do nothing but eat, sleep and fuck, that'll be the herald of our extinction. Glad I won't be around to see that.
I am not that fatalistic. Certainly and I agree, getting to the point of reproduction does not require critical thinking, nor does greed for that matter. The good thing is that our species also has the capability of scrutiny and we can use that to keep the gullible on a leash.
Ultimately our species will go extinct no matter what, and long before our sun dies too. If over pollution or a nuclear war were not to wipe us out, you'd still have comets and meteors to deal with, and it wont be a matter of if, but when.
I do think however, when sane humans care to get involved, you can keep the delusional and gullible on a leash. But it is still up to us to do that.
