Regardless of whether one is atheistic or religious minded I don’t see any intelligence in the world wars we had and continue to have where millions were mass murdered and is the shame of the entire human race high IQ or not. Or the disunity prevalent in our world.
Intelligence to me is people living together side by side harmoniously in peace and getting along with one another. A world where tolerance and compassion rule not power and wealth. How high really are our IQ’s that still we haven’t been able to establish world peace or reach gender equality? Or rid our world of racism and bigotry?
It’s intelligent I believe to work for the betterment of all not put ones selfish interests above the common weal. So where are all these high minded people with a high IQ working for the betterment of humanity and not self interest?
Yes, humanity is a bitter disappointment.
I woke up crying today over the Amazon.
When I was about 10 years old I became very distressed that all the trees were being cut down.
Everyone told me I was being silly.
That pattern has continued.
Our degradation is almost complete in every respect.
And IQ has nothing to do with it.
Nor religion or politics.
It is about heart, courage and self control.
The absence thereof, across the board.
High or low IQ, atheist or theist, capitalist or communist, makes no difference.
Faith in an external authority has failed people.
Because every external authority, the religions, the governments, has become a tool of manipulative psychopaths who know how to manipulate human selfishness and weakness.
And how to manipulate what was once our strength - the processes of pack-bonding. Group affiliation. An unconscious primate drive which worked for isolated bands in the jungle is now driving all of us to destruction.
It is too late to repair our miserable society. The members don’t know why they choose what they choose.
They will just keep repeating that same mistake.
The attempts to undo that ignorance, which has its highest expression in politics and religion , are rejected, and people become more militantly adversarial the worse it gets.
That has tightened like a ratchet around us all.
It is a species flaw. It will be our undoing.