Saturday, December 04, 2021

Intelligence

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: LIFE SONGS


Intelligence

 

When did we begin despising intellect?

When did we begin fearing intelligence?

 

Intelligence has guided us out of

The dark ages into the renaissance

Out of superstition into science

Out of the cave into society

 

Intelligence differentiates us

From the animal world

Where brute strength and instinct

Solely determine what survives

And what perishes

 

Intelligence gave us industry

Intelligence explores the stars

Intelligence invented technology

Intelligence has enabled us

To journey this far

 

Abandon intelligence

Declare it an enemy of the people

Confine it to an empty space

Where it cannot guide us

Where it cannot reach us

Where it cannot save us from ourselves

And we are doomed to extinction

Doomed to decline

Doomed to expire at the assigned date

 

Why would any civilization

Discard its most valuable members

Unless it secretly desires

Annihilation?

 

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