Let's talk about humans, I am sure you have heard about them.
Human beings... Far be it from us.
(Keywords: Human, Human beings, Stupid, Stupidity, Power, Violence, Inequality)
How do we assess stupidity? Can we call humans smart by looking at the skyscraper in Dubai? The smartphone that can be folded? A heart that can be replaced?
But wait a minute, humans are not stupid, there are only certain conditions that we can call them stupid. They are only stupid when they try to speak or behave or move.
To be clear, they are only stupid when they desire power. More dominance over the other. They are only stupid when their way of doing things leads to extreme, immoral, irreversible, rambling inequality. By ignoring the discoverable, achievable ways of equality, by leaving the virtue of presence behind and moving forward. They are only stupid when they decide to show off their wealth. Having more than needed, but still, being dissatisfied. They are only stupid when they have blind faith in the idea that people get what they actually deserve. Never questioning the importance of opportunity. They are only stupid when they turn these whole amazing lives into a bloody competition. Bringing the law of the jungle as an argument to relieve themselves, ignoring that they can be much more than this if they unite. They are only stupid when they are proud of their randomly "assigned" bodies from birth. An adorable eyebrow that has never been lifted up to represent a concern for those who live in a miserable way. They are only stupid when they are proud of the things that they didn't choose to be/to have. A parent, a nation, a religion, a society. They are only stupid when they are proud of their so-called wisdom because true wisdom is far away than a mortal human can achieve. Pride and knowledge can just not co-exist. They are only stupid when they think the whole universe rotates around them. Abandoning empathy, one of the things that make them mature. They are only stupid when they build their lives on magical conspiracy theories. Things that are considered valuable and trustable just because their ancestors found them so. They are only stupid when they ignore the colors of life and devote their lives to one single dark idea, a cause that is believed. A man, a great revolutionist at the end of his life, but nothing else. Nothing else. They are only stupid when they try to use hatred and violence. By not realizing the sameness between a harsh word and a wound of a sword. They are only stupid when they feel obliged to add some desperate meanings to their lives in order to keep it going. Even if it costs self disrespect, gradually losing the sense of reality. They are only stupid when they think they are not.
Apart from these, humans are fine. We are fine.
Sigmund Freud once said, "Es sind nicht alle Menschen liebenswert." It means, "not all people are loveable". I would disagree if we could freeze those people for the sake of a scientific experiment and see whether they are lovable or not. We love behavior.
I may not be my behavior, but I am definitely my next behavior.
I am my next sentence that will fall from the tip of my tongue.
I may not be me, but I will be.
Why humans act stupidly? Because of ignorance. "What happened to us?" is a brave question to investigate human stupidity since it implies the idea of "We were fine back then, what happened now?" No, we weren't. As far as I am concerned, we weren't. Which type of society was the best for us to live in? Maybe hunter-gatherer society? I am not sure about that. Tell me a time period that everything was great. It doesn't have to be great, it just should be not terrible. Look at me, how miserable it is, I could imagine the greatness, while I am trying to figure out a non-terrible version of living. Only this, randomly written, innocent sentence shows how we failed as human beings.
I am not entirely pessimist. I have a hope, a hope that may contain deception.
Amanov Shamsaddin
8th of May 2020
Baku, Azerbaijan
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