Intelligent design (Introduction)

by Abel , Saturday, November 05, 2011, 20:20 (4767 days ago) @ dhw
edited by unknown, Saturday, November 05, 2011, 20:27

In reading your questions again, I realized I only addressed the causes of my misanthropy and did not address the topic of human stupidity. I think my brain was protecting me from writing a book. Thank you brain.

The reasons for human stupidity are many fold.

1. People believe what people want to believe.

2. People perceive what they believe.

3. People are blinded by their own 'I's. (pride)

4. People see the world through social and moral circles of their own design, exacting "just us" rather than justice.

5. Men are primarily beasts of nature not logic.

6. Logic is like math. It is only as accurate and precise as its' least accurate and precise premise. A blemished premise (an imperfect truth) will lead to a flawed conclusion even when perfect logic is used.

7. Men let charismatic fools play upon their emotions to erode truthful laws and convictions. Over the ages, knowledge and civilization is thus lost.

8. The left brain conserves the survival drive by lying to itself and others routinely.

These are a few of the "whys" of human stupidity. Now let us look at a few examples.

Of course I could talk about all the knowledge that has been eroded and lost by this process of intellectual entropy. Or the way the laws of heaven have been eroded and remade by the clergy. And most certainly I could talk about all the wars that have been fought solely for money or pride. Or I could talk about the religious wars that the children of the book wage upon each other. And I certainly could address the concept of nations building enough weapons to destroy themselves not once over which might be reasonable, but they have enough to destroy the world hundreds of times over, which seems stupidly excessive.

Tell me do you feel more or less secure in knowing that all it takes is one charismatic fool to believe that God wants him to push the button and humanity is extinct. It seems surrender might be a better option. But a lot a people believe that their MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) policies are sane.Since humanity is the only race in this galaxy that would make the mistake of large-scale nuclear war, I doubt if they will make it twice.

I know that perhaps you are not worried about this, but I am. When I see leaders like Hitler persecute and kill millions while Germans cheer, it certainly shows what can happen when one person plays upon human stupidity. Of course you might not think that could happen here. And frankly if I had not watched it happen I would never believe that a mere actor could strike down our banking regulations, rewrite our economic theories with a catch phrase, strike down our constitutional rights and declare war on liberals while even the liberals cheered. If those liberal politicians weren't quite as stupid, they might have realized they were voting themselves out of office.

To enforce this "war" on liberals they struck down our right to illegal search and seizure. And since the government couldn't do it personally they did it by the transitive property of illegal search and seizure: use mercenaries. So they required employers to do it. Of course the legislative, executive and judicial branches were exempt from this "liberal witch hunt".

Now, being a rational man, I thought this egregious constitutional infringement would be struck down, and those legislators who were sworn to uphold those high ideals remanded for their crimes. But that did not happen. Our justice system decided searching a person's waste products was just as legal as searching his garbage. But is it really? Let's put aside the fact that I would have a problem with my employer searching my real garbage to determine if I was a liberal, Jew, Catholic, Muslim or any other reason. And I think that if I caught him, the police would at least talk to him about such an activity.
But now my employer can demand my garbage to see if I am one of those terrible people that the government had to declare a war on, just to stop them from committing a crime against themselves. Now you see how rights are eroded by stupidity. Now that we have made this step, the next is having your employer or the police having the right to knock on your door and demand any incriminating evidence you have and you have to surrender it or face additional penalties. We already see this. Though we do have the right to free speech and we do have the right not to incriminate ourselves, if an FBI agent asks if you robbed a bank and you lie, it will add five years to your sentence. So you better remain silent.

How many good men died fighting to secure these rights for their children and their nation? How much suffering have we endured to keep them? And yet Rights that were won and written in the blood of heroes, are lost beneath the ink of fools. This process of erosion is accelerating, as the Patriot Act can attest. And of all the fearful and treasonous politicians who voted for that act, I know of only one who honored the brave patriots who secured those rights with their blood by voting no. How quickly this world forgets its' heroes and destroys the deeds that they have done.

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