ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND REAL STUPIDITY
Look into the
hearts of humanity and tremble.
Look into your own
heart and flee.
It is all the same,
this history, a panoply of beliefs pitting one against another,
beliefs wielded
like a sword,
the caustic leaders
certainly not subscribing to such silly beliefs,
but adept at wielding them.
Beliefs,
unite the mob
behind a belief,
stoke the madness,
lay claim to the power.
So it has been, and remains.
Evolution lurched
to a halt upon the appearance of the human being, evolution rolling up against
the rock of self-awareness that henceforth refused to entertain any change to
what clearly is its own perfection.
But it is a
momentary halt, a transitory barrier, the very storms unleashed by the selfish
predilections of this overly self-aware species summoning its own demise.
A last great spasm
of religious fervor, mixed with the toxic effluent of nationalism, is beginning
its malevolent march across the planet, fueled by the usual cynical panoply of
miscreants and sociopaths.
Wealth and power will drive the leaders,
feeding the mobs’ fear and blind hatred.
Carefully cultivated ignorance and insecurity will drive the mobs.
Artificial
intelligence will be no match for real stupidity.
Distributed networks will wither when fiber optics succumb to pitch-fork and torch.
Look into the
hearts of humanity,
while still
conveniently able to observe through your glowing screens,
before the banging
on your door demands you join or die.
Copyright 2025 Don Ray
