Nice try7 unwarranted... but not enough bananas... No matter how you try to analyze it, aiming 15,000 nuclear warheads at each other, knowing that using most of the weapons in national arsenals could cause human extinction, is as stupid as it gets.
Webster defines stupidity as lacking intelligence or common sense. In that sense, it implies that intelligence would prevent humans from making nuclear weapons, and so if we are intelligent beings making nuclear weapons, we are therefore Stupid.
I think we may be individually intelligent, but collectively stupid,.... i.e., the lemming syndrome. If you know there are enough nuclear arsenals to end human existence, and you say nothing or do nothing about it, then the collective is you.
To me there’s no shame and no controversy in recognizing our ancestry and primordial roots. I suspect that you are either exhausted with human attempts at self- reflection, self-improvement and social justice, or you are possibly ideologically conservative, embracing a theological fatalism regarding temporal human existence. All humans struggle and I believe that a collective awareness of our shared options and limitations is available through institutional mediation and intervention.
I think the Austrian/American attraction to corporate socialization and value inculcation has proven over decades to be hugely successful, as Americans regurgitate the mindless, apolitical worldview that they are fed. America has been dumbed down intentionally and socially neutered by design.
I think it’s too easy to look at American society and draw negative conclusions about human nature and capacities.
Nice try7 unwarranted... but not enough bananas... No matter how you try to analyze it, aiming 15,000 nuclear warheads at each other, knowing that using most of the weapons in national arsenals could cause human extinction, is as stupid as it gets.
Webster defines stupidity as lacking intelligence or common sense. In that sense, it implies that intelligence would prevent humans from making nuclear weapons, and so if we are intelligent beings making nuclear weapons, we are therefore Stupid.
I think we may be individually intelligent, but collectively stupid,.... i.e., the lemming syndrome. If you know there are enough nuclear arsenals to end human existence, and you say nothing or do nothing about it, then the collective is you.
No offense... just my thoughts...
To me there’s no shame and no controversy in recognizing our ancestry and primordial roots. I suspect that you are either exhausted with human attempts at self- reflection, self-improvement and social justice, or you are possibly ideologically conservative, embracing a theological fatalism regarding temporal human existence. All humans struggle and I believe that a collective awareness of our shared options and limitations is available through institutional mediation and intervention.
I think the Austrian/American attraction to corporate socialization and value inculcation has proven over decades to be hugely successful, as Americans regurgitate the mindless, apolitical worldview that they are fed. America has been dumbed down intentionally and socially neutered by design.
I think it’s too easy to look at American society and draw negative conclusions about human nature and capacities.