41/ The Cause of Stupidity
I believe that today it is extremely important to realize what we are facing, what we are fighting against, if we claim that we are not fighting evil, but stupidity. How to define stupidity? What is the essence of human stupidity? What is the cause of evil?
I have been thinking about several factors that can make a person appear stupid in the eyes of others. Education, IQ level, and morality. Three basic factors that immediately came to mind. But can I understand the essence of the outlined problem using them? We shall see.
EDUCATION
I know many educated people with completed degrees, with multiple degrees, who are knowledgeable in various areas of our lives, and yet not every one of them inspires their surroundings, acts friendly, or leads in a way worthy of following. Often, they are lonely people who avoid larger groups and are often boxed in by thoughts confined to their fields. They are unable to think broadly and generally with perspective.
They do use their brains to their limits, but they are unable to capture the entire spectrum of information (like none of us) and many connections elude them throughout their lives. They are specialists in their fields, which they focus on, but in other areas, they can be considered fools.
I have noticed that higher education is not related to, and does not define, whether a person will behave stupidly or wisely in society. The old saying by Richard Feynman still holds: "Never confuse education with intelligence. You can have a diploma and still be an idiot."
INTELLIGENCE
Is intelligence what defines the level of a person's stupidity? We measure intelligence using the intelligence quotient (IQ), a number that is the ratio of a person's mental age to their physical age. Scientists define it this way and devise various tests to determine this number. Their essence is to determine a person's ability to solve given problems within a time frame, i.e., the ability and speed of problem-solving. Based on this number, people are then divided into several levels, categories, which classify them as stupid or smart. However, somewhere along the way, comrades make mistakes in their calculations, because from experience, I know that their smart people can behave like fools and fools like smart people.
I myself know a few hyper-intelligent people who, however, struggle with piles of thoughts in their heads and have serious problems with concentration. They are constantly stressed and often suffer from burnout. Even if a person is intelligent and can connect contexts relatively quickly, has a fast processor in their head, they can still make mistakes and err in life. On the other hand, almost everyone knows people with so-called "common sense," found in all areas of our working lives, who always make the right decisions, regardless of their education or IQ level, and are fun to be around.
MORALITY
The term "common sense" is a phenomenon in our world because it is often used, but no one knows exactly what its existence, cause, or reason is, why people with this sense are born completely naturally in every corner of our Earth. Perhaps the reason is morality, the upbringing of the individual? Can proper upbringing guide an individual to wisdom regardless of their IQ or education? The beacons of morality on our Earth are considered to be religions, faith, ideologies from various corners of our world. Are they the reason for the occurrence of common sense in our societies?
When I look back into history and read stories from past eras full of blood, I look today and still see the same hierarchical herd mentality in communities. I very much doubt upbringing, faith in ideology as the cause of common sense.
COMMON SENSE
What if I have been asking the wrong question all along? What if the explanation is much simpler and the occurrence of random wisdom in the population is more natural than we thought just a few years ago?
In today's world, in the field of the latest technologies, the term "artificial intelligence" is very prominent. Artificial intelligence operates on the principle of a certain program analyzing and evaluating vast amounts of data (so far) from part of our artificial network (the internet). For its functionality, it consumes power from a multitude of our devices simultaneously. So I ask, if rules, shared data, and shared power are considered the pinnacle of our current technology and we call it artificial intelligence, what then is our real intelligence? Our common sense?
What if we operate on a similar principle and share data among ourselves just as automatically? What if our performance in our heads increases permanently in direct proportion to the increasing number of our population? What if our experiences, knowledge flow through a "cloud" and with their help, we create thoughts in our heads, and we focus our attention on some of them? Is the pinnacle of our technology not just a copy of the observed reality?
People with common sense, in my opinion, are individuals with exceptional concentration, non-panicking, who can pull data on various topics from our shared "cloud," using our naturalness, in real-time. They occur across humanity with statistical regularity, completely naturally, because our intelligence, our reality operates on the principle of cloud-based information sharing, and people with increased concentration can easily obtain information from the space.
THE CAUSE OF STUPIDITY
We are all connected, and each of us contributes to the collective performance of humanity, exactly as in the principle of our latest artificial intelligence technology.
And so I ask in the twenty-first century, what is a greater manifestation of stupidity than today's lack of awareness of our interconnectedness in an interconnected universe, in an interconnected world?
I consider the cause of stupidity, the mother of all stupidity, to be our feeling of separation.
The lack of awareness, the lack of understanding of the principle of interconnectedness in a time when everything around us is interconnected, I consider the greatest stupidity. We can see every single day, we can feel every single day, we witness every single day how everything around us shares data and simultaneously receives it.
If today we are unable to observe interconnectedness in nature, we just need to look at our computer or phone.
CONCLUSION
Realizing the main principle is the basic prerequisite for fighting evil, fighting stupidity.
You may feel wise, intelligent, divine, but until you realize the essence and importance of human society as an interconnected whole, you will behave stupidly in a collective of people. Believe me, I am a waiter, I have a lot of experience with similar things.
None of us can encompass all knowledge, but today, thanks to artificial intelligence and various simplifying search filters, each of us can access a vast amount of data. The future will continue to make it easier for us to spread information, but what is essential today is to realize the basic principle of our world. If we are mistaken in the foundation, we will be mistaken in everything else constantly.
People are connected, all of us, regardless of our awareness, contribute our performance, our experiences to the whole, to humanity. We constantly create an informational field from our thoughts, experiences, knowledge, which each of us can tap into with our concentration. Dreams are not randomly created images in the head, dreams are connecting to the "cloud" and randomly sharing various experiences.
Let us ask the question, if people worldwide realized their mutual importance, their interconnectedness, today in the twenty-first century, would anything change?
Perhaps we would suddenly understand how significantly important it is for us to reproduce and increase our numbers on the planet, because with increasing numbers, we increase our performance, and automatically our technological advancement. In short, with increasing numbers, life becomes much easier for all of us.
We would understand how much harm depopulation decisions can cause us, how stupid it is to overlay our natural diversity with the LGBT agenda, the vaccination agenda, or the war agenda, which is a dead end for reproduction. We would understand who really wants to harm us fundamentally.
We would understand how senseless it is to compete and fight with each other, we would understand the necessity of our cooperation, we would understand our essence, our naturalness.
We would stop believing all the charlatans and fools who preach their faiths, their politics in a self-centered, egotistical spirit of isolationism and lead us down the path of self-destruction.
We would understand the cause of evil, the cause of stupidity.
Juraj Tušš
