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?
