Intelligence

What is it, and what does it truly mean? Why do humans consider themselves so intelligent? At first glance, it is very obvious. Look at what humanity has ‘accomplished’. Years of war, slavery through every age, social destruction, climate change. Math. Science. Art. Language. Humans can only mark intelligence and consciousness through what we ourselves can even reckon to fathom. Even scientists for ages have refused to allow animals so called ‘personalities’. Is each animal different from each other? In some ways, obviously so. Factory farms? Less, but what about upstairs? In that stupid cow, you say. I don’t know. I can’t think like a cow, and really, I’m glad I don’t. Isn’t that some human superiority right there? We grade intelligence as a species how the single being grades beauty and fun. The statement “if something looks this way, beautiful. And that way, horrid” comes to mind. We judge based off what we know and can understand. It’s rather skin deep. Can an intelligent human survive in the wild like a falcon or black bear? Can they truly? We did at one point, before social consciousness, before capitalism and this working hierarchy. Cavemen used to work on average twenty hours a week. And with society, as humans grow more intelligent through the ages, we work more, and for what? Really, how great is your life? If you’re reading this, you’re probably bored out of your mind, or trying to be supportive, so, thank you. But us humans, are we truly so intelligent? What intelligent species creates its own destruction, and follows through with it, albeit slowly? I find the human condition to be confounding at almost every time, and ironic and every other. The naked, hairless, big-brained ape is so much better than the rest. I mean hey, who’s going to re-asphalt the road every nineteen years? The cardinals and squirrels? Would whales really go to Space just to rub it on the other mammals’ faces? Well, no. I can say that confidently. Because it hasn’t happened. They’ve been around longer than us, and have matured, in nature, to point of beautiful harmony. More on ‘intelligence’ another time. For now, stay smart, it beats being ignorant.