Spoonfed Humanity

Yup, I've come to that horrid realization of just how misguided the greater part of humanity is. When they start using academic institutions as the scale by which to measure intelligence, no surprise that nothing ever gets resolved. Its always the same recurrent problems that through perpetual reformulation, get further and further away from the truth, until that final catastrophy sends them all fleeing. The fatal flaw begins when they start assuming that someone who actually likes to use their brain must have a wall full of PhDs. The flaw ends with something akin to the fate of Ur. Indeed Ur is a classical example of sociological entropy. In the beginning it was an engineering wonder, that provided all the domestic comforts early civilization basically needed. Regulated water systems to supply its many households, and flush away their waste. In the course of prosperity, people started getting too wasteful, while particularly those who administrated the wealth started keeping ever more of the dividends for their own purposes. Of course when supply could no longer meet demand, the administration took this as justification for them to enforce their authority. Of course rather than cut their own expenses, they chose to cut back on the technical people in their employ. As it all boiled down to one man having to maintain the entire water works, this was certainly too much for him to handle. When the sewage seriously started backing up, he immediately fled. A few thousand years later, the horrid smell was the first thing that hit the archeologists when they dug out this city. Need I say more?