Did you know, you are stupid as fuck?
We human beings are dumb.
And it’s not our fault.
Now don’t get me wrong here, yes we are kinda smart. After all, we are the smartest creatures in the planet; we build trains and planes, we create complex art and we even explored what’s outside this boring planet of ours.
Wait, so why are we dumb then?
So yeah, we are very smart in that regard (as in we can create stuff), BUT despite our advances in science and technology, we have a built-in super weakness which makes us actually very, very stupid.
Now, what’s this secret weakness you may ask.
Drum rolls please! *failed attempt to create suspense lol
>We fail to see the bigger picture and we think short term.
See, we humans do not think about the future enough and we get lost in what’s here and now. We make decisions based on what’s right in front of our eyes and not think about the consequences of our decisions. And when you only think about what’s here and now, there is a high possibility that you will get seriously fucked up.
Now, enough of this stuff, let me show you what I actually mean; there is a bit of personal story in it, but bear with me ; )
So, about a year ago, I was sitting in this biology class (presumably at the front), and our teacher was teaching about biodiversity and the ecosystem. Now, many perceived this teacher of ours to be slow and boring, but surprisingly, I used to LOVE his classes. I mean, he taught interesting stuff and discussed things in the class that were not in the book, (unlike those fucking morons who just read out what’s in the goddamn book and call themselves a teacher). So, all in all he was an awesome guy.
Alert: a bit of biological bullshit ahead! Little understanding required, hope you are smart enough lol. *Feel free to skip the section below and jump to next one if it’s too boring for you, hopefully it’s not.
So, in that class, he was teaching this concept where, everything in nature follows a population curve that look like hills; like it goes up and then it comes down and then it goes up again. So, the curve basically showed that population of every creature in the wild is heavily regulated by nature ie; it follows the population curve.
For example take rabbits; when there are few rabbits, they have enough grass to eat, so they eat a lot and then naturally fuck a lot (they are rabbits after all lol) and make a lot of babies. Now, the baby rabbits also grow up and they also fuck and then create more baby rabbits and the cycle continues, until…. till the rabbit population hits the peak of the population curve. So what happens at the top of the hill (ie; the peak)? Well, when there are too many rabbits….. then problems come up. Like there won’t be enough food for all those fucking rabbits and also, with so many rabbits crowded together, there will be a high chance that they will suffer from different diseases, which would naturally KILL A LOT OF THEM. And so, the rabbit population goes downhill until it reaches the optimum low, and then the cycle continues, and the population rises again… you get the idea ; )
> If you didn’t read the whole explanation, don’t worry it wasn’t really necessary in the first place lol. Just read
So, notice how the rabbit population never increases above the maximum peak value of the population curve. That’s the main point of the concept:
“NO CREATURE’S POPULATION CAN KEEP GROWING FOREVER.”
(Because of many reasons such as lack of food or disease when there are too many creatures.) Pretty simple right?
But then something came to me. I looked at the population graph of human beings, and guess what? It showed a general increase in population since the beginning of our species. So what does this mean? It means we don’t follow the damn population curve, we keep growing and growing We don’t follow one of the most fundamental rule of nature. We are the only exception to this rule.
Or are we?
Being the curious type, I naturally asked my awesome teacher: “Sir, why is it that we (humans) have kept growing and growing unlike, say rabbits or any other creature for that matter?”
And he answered, “Because we are smart, and we keep finding ways to sustain our growing population by innovation (and rabbits are not, they are dumb as fuck)“
And for the time being I was like “oh, he is right.” But the more I think about it a year later, the more I doubt what my teacher told me that day.
Why?
Because I doubt that we are smart enough. I hope I am wrong but do you really think we are smart enough to fool nature? We might delay it, but we cannot deny what’s inevitable. We cannot fool nature forever, sooner or later it will catch up, and when it does we can accept it gracefully because we all knew the end was coming deep down. Sooner or later we will have to follow the population curve and our number will have to drastically decrease. We had our fair share of warnings.
But what if we actually are smart enough?
There is still hope. I have no choice but to HOPE.
But that’s when our weakness comes in, remember the secret weakness? lol I think forgot it already. Here,
>We fail to see the bigger picture and we think short term.
This is what scares me. We are very bad at thinking what’s to come. Right now, everything is fine, the restaurants are busy, movie halls are packed, houses are being bought and sold, children are going to school. Business as usual. We are comfortable now, but I am scared that since we only think short term, we will remain in the illusion that things will be the same. That, is worrying. because if we keep behaving the way we are right now, it clearly won’t be the same.
Just look around you, how many people are there. I was recently in a big market, and there were so many people. So many people buying so much stuff. I was there buy a chicken for dinner with my friend, but so were so many other people. I imagined how many chickens were eaten that day, while I was eating my own lol. Then I imagined, where do these chicken come from? Who produces these chicken? How do they produce this chicken? In fact in one day, I guess millions and millions of chickens are eaten everyday. MILLIONS OF CHICKEN. And well, these chicken also need to eat right? Where does the feed come from? It MUST come from somewhere right?
There isn’t an infinite source of chicken feed, nor chicken to sustain the hunger of seemingly infinite tummies around the world without completely destroying the atmosphere. It’s as simple as that, but the question is, is it stopping us from eating chicken?
And the answer is NO. But we know, this unsustainable, and it puts pressure on the environment and fucks up the atmosphere with greenhouse gases. Yet, we still eat chicken, moreover we waste chicken everyday. Why do we do this? Well, you guessed it, it’s because of the secret weakness of ours. We live in a illusion of abundance. And we only see what’s right in front of us, right now. And what’s that? Seemingly never ending supply of chicken. But if you dig below the surface, we know it’s not true. We don’t have an infinite number of lands, feed or chickens to feed the ever growing population. And as a plus point it’s also gonna to fuck our planet up. But we are too dumb to realize it fully and act upon it. We don’t reduce our meat consumption, nor do we stop wasting food. We don’t clean up our rivers and we keep depleting our natural resources. Why? Again, because of our weakness.
So the bottom line is: We NEED to overcome this weakness of ours, if we are to avoid the fate of the poor rabbits. We need to think seriously about the future and act accordingly. We have no choice. And I hope we can overcome this weakness that’s in each and everyone of us. It’s not that only stupid or bad people think that climate change isn’t real, or waste chicken meat everyday. It’s in EVERYONE OF US. These two things are quite the same believe it or not, and if you waste chicken meat like me, welcome aboard to the dumb people’s club! You are officially one of the so called, “old and stupid” people = ) So, we all have this weakness, and its fucking dumb to think of others as being old or ignorant, when you yourself don’t do shit to change the status quo. We truly are a bunch of hypocrites.
So the weakness is in everyone of us. Just remember the last time you procrastinated to complete an assignment ; ) it’s just that 7 billion people are procrastinating right now and you are one of them.
So, all in all, yes we are dumb, but we are also smart. We are human beings after all and we have the ability to make our choices. And the choices won’t be easy, these would be truly difficult choices to make. We have let the status quo continue for so long that it would take a lot of effort to get out of our comfort zones. It would be painful to close already existing coal mines with hundreds of workers and start all over again with solar panels, it would take effort to take the stairs instead of the elevator and it would be a chore to remind yourself to not waste food every time you eat. But, we can and have to make these choices, and I believe in together we can. I believe in us.
Honestblogs 