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“You’re working off a flawed assumption. Higher intelligence doesn’t make you less greedy or self-centered or evil. It doesn’t necessarily make you a good person.”
They seemed truly happy, and it made me happy to watch them—a thousand small kindnesses among people who had nothing to give.
“Because as hard as it’s been, life went on.”
We’re living in a global community of ten billion, with brains that can only feel compassion for our immediate clan.
In the absence of compassion, selfishness is the most rational response of all. Our species’ superpower is not caring. We merely exercised that ability. We don’t have an intelligence problem. We have a compassion problem. That, more than any other single factor, is what’s driving us toward extinction.
What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there’s no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight.
