Smart World — Stupid People
History is a fortune teller. Our past is a manual. No one is reading! Or listening!

History is a fortune teller, whose services are free. But for you to know, you must read. Thanks to technology, it can be read to you, so all you have to do is just listen. The past for everyone we know personally, including our own, is a manual. This manual, you don’t have to read. You just have to listen and learn by just being aware. So, knowledge comes in many ways. The most effective are the pain from the results, along with the rewards, from the consequences of the actions, choices, decisions, and intentions of humanity.
I like to think I am wise in the right areas. I take the time to know myself, life, living, our world, and the humans in my life. Learning mode is never off, so I take the time to understand everything and everyone too.
More than three decades ago, we had to take the words of the victims and historians about the crisis our world is erupting in.
Thanks to smarter technology, we see history in action, live, direct, and in true color and time, along with videotaped evidence.
Nothing is hidden from us now. We get to see all sides of humanity, with and without intentions.
We know who is whom in real-time.
Shouldn’t we be smarter?

Many of the past, present, and future crises facing our world now could have been avoided had humans made smarter decisions. Every decision comes with a yes and no. We are aware we can’t please everyone.
“But they didn’t know that would have happened!”
“Show me something new the people in power have done to gain power and stay in power. Their repeated action was made by someone in the past whom they admired and looked up to. They often ignore the outcome of the one whose actions they imitate. Unaware that they will also share their fate.”
After getting no answer I said, “History predicts their outcome and the hatred that their decision allows to start and grow. We see it played out in nations worldwide.”
Shouldn’t we be smarter?

Americans are facing a crisis that smart people predict, has happened before in history many times. Humanity hopes the lesser of the two evils will be victorious in the 2024 Presidential elections. Smarter humans can imagine and feel the outcome if the greater evil becomes the victor.
Shouldn’t we be smarter?

Didn’t some humans see this coming?
When Putin started his game with Ukraine, a smarter world should have seen his intentions and prepared Ukraine immediately, while planning ahead.
A smarter world should know that when we keep oppressing any nation, eventually, they will explode into violence.
Slavery ended because certain races got tired of the oppression their generation endured through the cruelty of humanity and began to fight for freedom.
A smarter world should know that hatred grows faster than love and is reborn in the next generation. So, we have a reason not to continue growing hatred. We also know its consequences.
Israel should have been aware that the international laws that they signed and didn’t adhere to will have consequences. This goes for all nations and humans not reading and are unaware of history.
Our smarter world made information at our beck and call, and sometimes, we don’t have to call it. We see it repeatedly live and directly in the lives of family and friends.
We build self-driving cars. We are building robots for every occupation and occasion. We have smartphones, watches, TVs, doorbells, etc., and stupid humans living in a smart world.
We need smarter leaders to positively lead our world into peaceful solutions.
Are the machines we are building smarter than us?
The Bible says, ‘There is nothing new under the sun.”
Written history can back some of that up. Oral history will do the rest. Someone is lying and someone is telling the truth. Either way, someone knows the truth.
Yet destructive history continues to be repeated in a smarter world.
The crisis humanity has endured from the dawn of time is wasted and will be repeated if no life lesson is learned. Balance must be paid, because hatred must exist for humans to know what love is. Life lessons encourage us to grow love, and stifle hate. Cruelty must be there for us to know the value of kindness. Share kindness. Folly must play to give us the value of wisdom. Pain pays us through stupidity. Either way, humanity has a choice.
Shouldn’t we be smarter?

We are boasting about smart everything, while still making stupid decisions. War is not a smart decision as it affects all of us, and the ones who rely on us too.
We are too smart to choose war now in a world where technology is glowing, increasing wealth, prolonging life, and making communication and life easier. Technology also makes learning easier for many.
Many countries aren’t aware that the goods they take for granted arrive in their country from places some of them have never heard of. We are connected in ways we can’t see.
Go back into history and see what the people of WWI and WWII did to survive.
We should be smarter. We can’t invest billions in smart machines and services run and controlled by stupid humans. The wrong humans are making certain life decisions that are making life harder for our smarter world. We need smarter people to make sensible decisions that will affect our lives positively.
Smart machines need to be controlled and run by smarter people.
What do you think?
If your heart could speak, what would it say?
Mine would say, a smarter world, needs smarter people to run it.
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