Intelligence…Its Whats for Dinner

A few days ago while walking Major in his favorite park, I observed an incident that made me wonder about the subject of Intelligence and why some people are still allowed to breed. A woman walking her daughter who looked to be about 8 years old and the child is walking toward a stand of beautiful trees in the park. Suddenly a small branch falls from the tree and the child picks it up to examine it like curious children do. The mother immediately runs over, snatches the the branch from the child’s hand and flings it away with a screech saying, “Don’t play with that! You don’t know where its been!!!” She grabs the child and moves on, leaving me wondering how many years of therapy and medication this kid is in for.

I’m actually stunned by the hold incident and begin to wonder about the subject of human intelligence (or lack thereof). Like you I get these emails or ads that ask you to take IQ Test or on Social sites, the ones that say “So and So took the IQ test which was 160…whats your?” I have avoided these test…mainly because I hate being pigeonholed. Plus they really are not a good indication of being “smart”. As the above example shows, intelligence doesn’t mean you are smart.

This got me to thinking about collapse of the world. Most people agree that the cockroaches would probably be the main survivors. But how about humans. Can human intelligence save us? Doubtful, since human intelligence got us in this pickle in the first place. Which is sad. We go around from day to day flaunting our so-call intelligence. I’m sure you been a party to hazing of some people that don’t seem to have a clue. If not you’ve laughed at movies or sitcoms ensemble cast where one of the member is some hick from the backwoods or farmland. And just like everything else we are brainwashed to believe this person lacks intelligence just because they talk funny or not from the centers of intelligent discourse. So consider this. We are so fond of hearing that most of us are one paycheck away from poverty. How about being one disaster away from being placed back into the stone age. Yep, if you are one of those that take a simple thing like electricity for granted, what would happen if it was suddenly discountinued? No phone, computers, no TV, no gas for your car cause the pumps run on electricity, no refrigerator, no stoves and no food because the trucks that bring your food to the market can’t get the gas it need. And in all this chaos who survives? You guessed it (providing you are intelligent enough to figure it out). its the hick farmer that we turned our noses up as being unintelligent or stupid…and of course his wife and his kids Kids (I might add) that were allowed to play in the dirt and pick up branches from trees and who are not allergic to anything!

Food for thought…food for though! But wash your hands first, please.