Proofs humanity is the stupidest species in the world

- Plato’s dialogues

- the Gods-must-be-placated-with-material-goods racket. It lasted thousands of years, and to a lesser extent to this day.

- History repeats itself.

- It took humanity 150 thousand years to come up with the beginnings of writing. It took them a further seven thousand years to come up with computing. Even then, seven decades after building computers, computing and networked computing remain in a wild west sort of situation.

- every human culture wants to rule the world and thinks it is the greatest.

- for all their boasting of powers of observation and moralizing, they are the most destructive force in nature short of a large asteroid impact.

- unlike all other organisms, humans torture each other and others.

- Despite being control freaks, humans are nearly perpetually catching up with a world out of control, often due to their action.

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