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It's not our level of intelligence which is self destructive. It's what we choose to do with it that can be self destructive. It's social and political systems which are self destructive. We can change them, if we want to. It's our apathy and inertia which prevent us....basically our stupidity. Change scares most people, and therefore they don't want to see it occur. So, those people who want power most of all, take advantage of that, and what you get as an outcome of that is what you see on this planet, right now. We can change, but it's going to take the right sort of person to push it and lead it along. Though, we all have to take responsibility for what needs to be done.
That's where any civilisation, anywhere in the Universe, can make it. It has to embrace change and take responsibility for it. Not endlessly debate the why's and wherefores and then hide under a rock, hoping some other idiot will take the lead, or clean up the mess that they make for themselves.
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