The Idiocy of the Human Race

     As I sit and ponder days past I am amazed at the total idiocy of the human race. We are a people that are bent on self-destruction. From the earliest days of history to the present day we have endeavored to destroy as much, and as many, as we could. Mankind, from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon to Homo-Sapiens we have killed each other relentlessly. For what? Power, greed, status, you name it, we have killed for it.

     In the movie Star Trek: First Contact Captain Jean-Luc Picard made the statement that the Vulcans were not interested in Earth simply because we were too primitive, too violent. In other words- not worth their time. Now granted, Vulcans are a fictional race of otherworldly beings invented by Gene Roddenberry (aka The Great Bird of the Galaxy) that live by the rules of logic, burying their emotions because emotions bring on violence and illogical behavior such as murder, greed, vanity, dishonesty, etc. The thing you have to realize is that Mr. Roddenberry was a genius with a vision of a bright future.

     Back to my topic now that I’ve put a good word in for Star Trek and its’ creator, after all, I am one of the biggest Trekkies in the area. TGBOTG had this dream that mankind would, somehow, become peaceful and co-exist without war, without greed, without poverty, hunger and sickness. Everyone would live in harmony and equality without prejudice. The problem with that is this: people can’t seem to get past their prejudices and bigotry, their greed and vanity or even their malice toward anyone that thinks differently than they do. I understand that everyone has their own opinion and outlook on life. Fine! Just don’t push it on me and I won’t push mine on you.

     Utopia is what Roddenberry envisioned and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto was all about. Utopia cannot exist as we, mankind, cannot get past our own mindset to see someone else’s point of view, much less try to understand it. So, what do we do? We have war. We kill people that are different than us, that think differently than us, that believe differently than us. We are a violent race and have no intention of changing that. What is the first thing we, as a generalized race, do when faced with an unknown? We try to kill it. We don’t try to understand it; we just want to kill it. We don’t try to co-exist with anything peacefully, we want to conquer and destroy, take over and control.

     Do I agree with Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse Tung or any of the other communist leaders that used equality as a tool to control? No. Do I agree that everyone is created equal and society should "give according to their abilities to those according to their needs?” No. I believe that if a person works hard and receives an honest day’s pay for an honest day’s labor he should keep that pay for his own use, not share it with someone that is too lazy to go out and hoe the garden. If ya don’t work, ya don’t eat. It is not society’s responsibility to support the lazy, unmotivated, drug/alcohol addicted or criminal people. It is society’s responsibility to help those that cannot support themselves, not the ones that will not.

     Here I am, on my bloody soapbox again and off subject. Then again, not really; it is those lazy, unmotivated, drug/alcohol addicted criminal types that are the most unequal, the most violent and the most illogical. It isn’t the rich and powerful that kill for no reason other than their own greed. Or is it? Governments the world over are breaking the banks of their nations trying to support those type people. In order to get more resources to support them, governments go to war to steal the resources of other governments.

     Why did the United States go to war with Iraq in 1990? Why did the government bomb Bagdad for three days and nights relentlessly? Sure, Iraq had invaded Kuwait and was being naughty to them. What did Kuwait have? Oil. The Iraqis had captured an oil reserve that the US wanted. The United States, according to some high ranking people that know more than I do, has more oil than the entire Middle East but doesn’t want to use it. So what does the greatest nation on the planet do? Kills people to get what they want.

     Osama bin Laden and his soldiers, followers, zealots or whatever you want to call them are on a jihad against Western Civilization because we are the worst thing to happen to the planet. We, for the most part, believe in a Christian god, that freedom from a dictator is the only way to live, that Christianity is the only religion anyone should really believe in and that truth, justice and the American way are right and everyone else is wrong. Well, I think that everyone else in the world kind of thinks that their way is the right way and ours is the way of the school-yard bully.

     The point I am attempting to make here is that we, as a race, are violent, temperamental idiots. If I believe that Odin, the All-Father, is the one great god and you believe that Buddha is the one great god and Sally down the street thinks that Yahweh is the one great god, who the heck cares? Tolerance is the key. Understanding one another is the lock. Living together on one planet peacefully is the door. It doesn’t matter what, or who, you believe in. What matters is that we all bleed red, we all have the same emotions, hopes, dreams, we are all built the same (a head, torso, two legs, two arms, ten fingers and toes, two eyes and ears, a mouth and a nose) and we all, every bloody last one of us, live on the same little rock in the same little solar system in the same little galaxy in a huge universe. Why can’t we all just get along?

     I like to say that I am not racist, that I hate everyone equally. I do. The more I see people the more I like fish. Why? You give fish a little bit of food every day, clean their tank once a month and what do they do? Nothing. They swim around their little world and don’t tell you anything, don’t hate you, don’t love you, won’t cheat on you, and won’t try to kill you; fish are quiet little entities that survive without care. I like that. People, on the other hand, will do their utmost to destroy you in any way they can. Whether it is steal from you, talk about you, persecute you or whatever, they are out to get you. People are violent, illogical creatures that the Christian god gave dominion over the earth to. Did he have a sense of humor or what?

     Just as the republican governmental system that the United States instituted about 230 years ago, God’s plan was an experiment that went totally wrong because mankind cannot live in peace and harmony. Mankind has to fight, has to argue, has to win, whatever the cost. What I believe is right and what you believe is wrong and I am gonna make you believe the way I do or you will die. What you are is foreign to me so you must be destroyed. I hate you because you are different than me. I don’t understand you at all so you have got to be evil. Does it sound familiar? Probably not. Want to know why that doesn’t sound familiar? It’s because, no matter how much evidence is put in front of your eyes, you don’t want to think that you could be wrong in any way, shape or form and that is why the human race is nothing but a bunch of idiots.

     Self-serving, egotistical, maniacal megalomaniacs with delusions of godhood is what we are as a race. We allow tyrants to rule us while we hate those that would be tyrants. We disdain violence while destroying nations. We abhor murder while we ‘humanely’ execute criminals. We believe that stealing is wrong while we take other nation’s resources as our own. The funniest thing is this: it’s all right to do unto others as long as they don’t do unto us.

     Here is an example of that last statement. Let’s say that a person has someone that steals from them. To go further, that thief constantly steals from his victim because victim believes in the ultimate good in people and thinks that this thief can be saved from his path of destruction. Victim is in need of something that thief has but isn’t using so victim takes what he needs, after all, it isn’t like stealing since thief is living off victim. Thief goes insane with rage because victim had the audacity to take something from him. I see it every day. Not this exact scenario but in general.

     From the beginning of mankind, no matter how you believe, we have been killers, killing off those that we believe are against us, whether they are or not. Cain killed Able and they were the sons of the first people God put on Earth according to the Bible. Wow, does that tell ya anything? Free will does not entitle people to kill for no reason, or any reason for that matter. A difference of opinion is just that, a difference. It doesn’t make one right and the other wrong. It makes for a discussion for understanding the beliefs of each other.

     Man makes laws because mankind doesn’t know how to act. It’s against the law to let a twenty year old soldier drink alcohol yet that soldier is old enough and responsible enough to go into battle with a billion dollar piece of equipment and die for his country. Does that make sense? No. But, at the same time, it is against the law for a twenty year old slacker that would steal the gold out of your teeth just to get a fix to drink, also. That does make sense. Laws are give and take. Some make sense while others are sheer idiocy, just like the human race. It’s against the law, now, to tell a woman that she’s hot. Really? How is that sexual harassment? (Thank you Anita Hill.)

     Ok, a little on the overboard side with those examples; I got on my soapbox again. If a person can’t understand that it’s wrong to go to the bar, get totally FUBAR and then get behind the wheel of a vehicle then that person is living proof of how the human race is idiotic. It happens, though, so man has made laws to make that illegal. If only people weren’t idiots. It’s against the law to have sex with someone that is unwilling to do the act. No kidding? Common sense. But, once again, laws were made because people are stupid, idiotic imbeciles that have to be told what is wrong and right. It’s really sad to think that we, as an entire race, have to be told by someone else what we should know by instinct.

     Because we have to be told what to do and what not to do, we have allowed governments to make laws concerning our entire lives. We have to wear seatbelts because that saves lives, at least that’s what government thinks. We have to go to school until we turn sixteen because the government says so. We have to do this and we can’t do that simply because governments know that we’re stupid and have no sense of propriety. The human race is nothing more than a bunch of moronic baboons running around, dressed as civilized beings and pretending to be the top of the evolutionary chain. I’d rather be the monkey in the tree.

     I know that there are those that will adamantly disagree with me on everything that I have stated. I know that there are those that will say I am the idiot and that mankind has done great things and will continue into eternity as the governing force of the universe. Those are the people that are the biggest idiots. Those are the worst of the self-serving, egotistical megalomaniacs that think they can do no wrong and those are the ones that are the biggest part of why we will be extinct before even the smallest species of insect goes extinct. Those are the ones that will bring this planet to extinction. That is when the universe will rejoice because this young, violent race will no longer be a threat to anyone, or anything, out there.