Life provides us with ample opportunity to acquire a good deal of knowledge. However, if we fail to find meaningful applications for it, we’re perceivably ignorant and practically useless.
Within the confines of a human society, every genius is a useful idiot, but not every useful idiot is a genius.
When our fears get the better of us, we tend to focus on seemingly insurmountable complexity that could be broken down into smaller, more manageable units. Failing to obtain these units puts us either on a path of self-destruction or turns us into insufferable control freaks.
The issue isn’t that we have created tools powerful enough to wipe out our entire species including our home planet, but that we keep producing people who seriously consider it a meaningful option to use these tools in such a way.
It is probably conceivable that a single person is all it takes to press a button that can annihilate our entire planet — but it is definitely inconceivable that a single person can reach that button alone.
Your idols and heroes may have proven themselves to you and in your world — but to me and in mine they’re most likely a bunch of nobodies.
What’s the difference between a Nobel Prize for an intellectual and a pageant prize for a beauty queen?
Nothing.
And the award goes to:I’m important because other people are telling me that I am!And the consolation prize goes to:I am not important anymore because other people forgot about me…
The biggest threat to our mind are the people who crave power over others. Incidentally, that description makes for an excellent common denominator because such people are not limited by whether they are rich or poor; whether they are smart or dumb; whether they are man, woman or anything in between; whether they are young or old; whether they are well-intentioned or ill-intentioned; or by their skin color. These are everyday people and they are a force to be reckoned with. As a matter of fact, they are so powerful that we shouldn’t waste our precious time with them. Instead, we better carefully move away from their line of sight so we can keep evolving our mind in peace. And to elevate our self beyond the limits imposed by those who ignore theirs — or depend on our minds as hosts to keep theirs on life support.
My writings are nothing but a mere fraction of the naive thinker behind them.