How Stupid Are We? A Visual Narrative (An Ill-Tempered Week Part One)

 

Why?

I mean, seriously

And it isn’t just people at their jobs.  There are the amateurs, believing they know what they’re doing

They do not know what they’re doing

Some people do it to themselves, damaging their prospects in life without considering what the future holds

Other people are just plain stupid

We think that all animals are beneath us too, imagining that our smarts can outdo their superior strength and instincts

With children too

Some people are just selfish creeps

Or for fun, their idea of fun, and oh how they screw things up

This is less a condemnation of humanity itself than of our willful blindness, our inability to see beyond the immediacy of our momentary interests and concerns

or hatred

or anger

It is often a difficult world to live in, to function as a rational human being

and so we try to anesthetize ourselves to the horrors of one another

or engage in mindless cruelty

And soon, very soon, we learn to care about nothing.

And the world continues, the same as before, only slightly–just slightly–a darker place than yesterday, which was a little worse than the day before.