intelligence vs stupidity
we modern humans are in a race
between our intelligence and our stupidity,
my wife and I got our second shots of vaccine today:
an insidious, often deadly, virus
has been understood by our science,
which then figured how to talk to our immune system,
to convince it how to pattern effective defense
against relentless, mutating offense,
yet right beside such willful use of the mind
paces a willful ignorance that denies observable truth
as clear as what’s before your eyes, as 2+2=4,
despite what the commentators they listen to assert,
I cannot improve on Dickens
in the duality he described
of the best of times
and the worst of times,
coexisting,
the race is on,
and my money and my life
are betting on our intelligence,
still, stupidity is coming up fast on the outside,
how sad it is that the winner is in doubt,
despair comes at the future as fast as hope,
heart and head need to root
for our better angels
over our lesser demons.
by Henry H. Walker
February 24, ‘21
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