I alternate between thinking that the whole damned human race is composed of ignoramouses who still have some hope of being saved through education and self-reflection, and believing that the whole damned human race is a bunch of useless buffoons who are completely beyond hope.
Congratulations! You got here early...still waiting on the rest...that's when we'll find out which route mankind will choose and just where we're going from here.
So, you are behaving like a spoiled brat. Bravo.
I would call your condition "an astute observer of the human race"...;-D...
You have a psychiatric condition for thinking that?
You sound quite normal to me
You sound like someone who ran out of weed
Oh wait that isn't normal...
Bipolar is caused by a genetic inability to regulate levels of lithium. The manic and depressed poles of the spectrum tend to be seriously psychotic. It's profoundly different from a swinging of point of view or mood states.
Babies are born knowing nothing, and even having fewer instincts than any other animal. The brain is born with exponential capacity to learn but that capacity diminishes with circumstances and age. The same attributes that make us the most adaptable species also make us the most stupid.
We do have some degree of choice. Learning takes effort for the brain in the same way that exercise is effort for the body. The levels of obesity in Western culture give us a clue as to how much people resist effort.
Looking back across history, we can see humans make the same mistakes for the same reasons in all times, places, and cultures. So we can say human beings are consistently and reliably fallible.
There are some improvements. We have a United Nations which actually has achieved a few wonderful things like a universal bill of human rights, the world health organisation, and help for refugees. They might not achieve as much as we would like, but they achieve far more than was possible before they existed.
P.S. We are all ignoramuses who can each somewhat save ourselves through education and self-reflection, but there will always be a (possibly fairly high) percentage of us who for all kinds of reasons prefer to avoid learning and self-awareness.
In other words, the truth lies in between your two propositions. (In my opinion.)
