Greed

Just imagine if a delegation of super-intelligent aliens actually came to study Earth. What would they make of us??

We are supposed to be highly intelligent!

How have we organised the planet?

Is it organised intelligently?

We have a bunch of tribal apes. Instead of working together and intelligently running things we divide, fight and hate.

There’s more than enough to go round so that all of us can live in luxury.

We have the technology to create an harmonious place where nature and us can flourish.

Is that what we’ve chosen to do?

Like hell it is!!

We’ve divided ourselves up into warring factions!

We look for any excuse to hate – race, colour, language, creed, religion, sexual orientation, hair colour, preferences. It doesn’t take much.

We arbitrarily divided the continents up into tribal units we call countries. There’s no logic to this. It just gives us things to fight over.

We invent multitudes of religions for gods we never see and create doctrines and elaborate rituals, dress codes, feeding restrictions and behaviours, strictly adhered to, according to writings written by unknown people who spoke to these gods in wildernesses, caves and mountain tops well away from other people. Yet we hold every word to be true and firmly believe that ‘our’ god is the only one that is real. We are prepared to kiill in his name and often do. We actually torture, stone and burn people who don’t believe the same as us! Highly intelligent!

We spend our resources on weapons and starve people, under-resource education and healthcare.

We build up sophisticated cities and then periodically bomb them to smithereens.

We develop a system built on greed where a tiny minority have more than they could ever use in a million life-times while billions live in squalor, extreme poverty, starve a die.

We plunder the earth for resources so that that minority can prosper.

We dump dangerous chemicals in the air, in the water and in the soil so that not a square inch of the planet is unpolluted – including ourselves and every plant and animal. We do that because it is cheaper than doing things properly. We do it so we can make more money. All that money goes into the pockets of people who really don’t need it.

We have caused such pollution that it is changing the weather, climate and could lead to our own extinction.

Talking of extinction – there are a number of ways we could become extinct – viruses, asteroids, nuclear war – we already know about them. But do we take measures, put in enough money? No we’d rather fight and make more elaborate weapons. We’d rather create mosques, cathedrals and temples. We hope it will never happen or put our faith in invisible gods or belligerent politicians.

We are all mentally ill in that we are addicted to all manner of things from heroin, crystal meth, alcohol to collecting bird eggs, records and stamps. Gambling and superstition are pervasive.

The majority of us spend most of our lives working away to make money for that minority who already have way too much.

We allow conmen, in the form of religious leaders and politicians, to abuse us, stupefy us and take away our ability to think rationally.

We believe lies. We believe conspiracies. We believe everything in the media or that our leaders tell us – even if we can see it’s a pile of bollocks.

We all have biological processes of excretion and reproduction but for some reason we think these biological things are obscene. We are embarrassed and disgusted by our own biology! We make sex into a weapon to use against people! We develop perversions and abuse.

We have divided humans into two groups based on gender. The women, despite superior intelligence, are deemed weaker and so are easily abused, subjugated and made into second-class citizens. We turn them into sex slaves, create social pressure to make them dress up in silly costumes – from burqas to stiletto heels, make them paint their faces and exhibit their bodies and then castigate them for painting their faces and exhibiting their bodies. We make them possessions and restrict their lives. We get them so anxious over their appearance and sexuality that they don’t know if they are coming or going.

We have enormous psychological flaws. So many of us are psychopaths, sociopaths, narcissists, bipolar, or suffering from anxiety, social anxiety, schizophrenia and paranoia. None of us are normal.

We love violence and pain. Most of our films and art is about murder and pain. We worship greed, violence and pain. Pain is king. We love inflicting pain on others. We love torturing animals. We have bull rings, bear pits, cock fighting and a long history of hunting for pleasure. If it moves kill it, shoot it, spray it and burn it – preferably in a way where we can watch it slowly die in agony.

We also love death. Well we love death in everything else and are terrified and obsessed with our own death!

As a species we are screwed up!!

So what would those really intelligent aliens make of us?

Do you think they’d see us as intelligent?

You know – I reckon that a species that invents religion and loves pain and war can’t ever be really considered intelligent!

They’d probably eradicate us as vermin!!