Many moons ago, human beings developed ‘something' that allowed them to use their brain in a more sophisticated manner than all the other primates. We have past records of a time when humans were cave dwellers who learned how to shape tools to create all types of useful utensils. Early hi-tech wonders were the making of fire and then the invention of the wheel.

Do you know the name of the man or woman who invented the wheel? If s/he had patented it, how much would that be worth in today's world?.......Quite a bit more that the value of Microsoft I should imagine.

Well, there was no money in those days and people did things to help their community just for the good of each other. They were simple beings who enjoyed each sunrise, sunset and nature's resplendent bounty with any distortion or distraction of an ‘educated' intellectual mind. They required no reasons to enjoy life, for they were just glad to be alive.

Many great inventions took place when we were a primitive race of beings - sharp stones on sticks (spears) to hunt game, cooking pots to cook the catch of the day, and many other things that made life easier than previous generations. One thing led to another and another and another. Then the wheel gave birth to faster land transport and boats, which meant that man could venture forth throughout the world to plunder and pillage less sophisticated tribes.

The more intellectually sharp-witted a tribe became, the more power they learned to consume, the more atrocious became their actions. So, very early in human development, man learned he could procure other people's wealth by fighting wars. Indeed, it did not take long for people to learn not only could they steal and rape from other tribes, they could use various methods both violent and cunningly non violent in extracting ill-gotten gains from their own clan.

Laws were invented and clever people learned to bend the laws. Many times it was the law-makers themselves who bent their own laws for the leaders in power. The more the intellectual mind developed, the more demanding became its obsession with so called power and wealth. More and more diabolical acts followed and what is recorded in history books is probably only the tip of the iceberg in all the injustices done to different populations throughout the ages.

• "Why?" was the question asked by many of the six million Jews who walked into the gas chambers.

• "Why?" was the question asked by native Americans when man's greed annihilated whole families whilst they seized their land.

• "Why?" was the question asked by Mayan civilizations who were butchered by the Spanish conquistadors in the name of religion and conquest.

• "Why?" was the question asked when thirty million people were killed in the first world war.

• "Why?" was the question asked in 2001 when the twin towers and four airplanes filled with passengers were destroyed by Muslim fundamentalists.

• Why?....Why?...Why?...... and a zillion more whys, in every human life, since man became a sophisticated thinker...

Maybe the answer lies in our own tribes, in our own societies, in our own countries.

• So the question now becomes.......

Why do clever people be-lie-ve in so many unsound perceptions of what life is all about?

Ralph Waldo Emerson said; "It is hard to be simple enough to be good." and so it is.

If humanity was not so clever, they would not be able to invent so many tools of destruction and decimation. Also, the "Haves" would not be able to manufacture so many luxury items to tempt the ‘Have Nots' or the 'Want Mores' from stealing them.

But what causes the crimes and wars?

Is it the "Things manufactured" that cause people to commit crimes, or is it jealousy, greed, avarice, hatred and a whole host of clever erroneous evil thought?

Yep!.....you certainly have to be clever intellectually, or how else will you be able to hate so many people? And that kind of inaccurate intellectual thinking must lack a mass of intelligence, because intelligent people do not get disconnected from their source of creation/evolving and thus have no need to commit crimes of greed and hate.

You certainly have to teach students how to read and write, but without the true reasons why they are learning intellectual skills, they can perfect ways to become swindlers and cheats....

Golden rule......You can cheat and swindle innocent people, but you must not get found out and if you do get found out... Mums the word....The old school tie don't you know old chap.....Let's all stick together.....

"What does education often do?  It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook." -Henry David Thoreau

Bending laws is so much fun for the educated swindlers in all of societies establishments. It becomes a game of who can out-think the other rivals, who are also in positions of power..... trying to find additional, better methods of cheating innocent folks. Bankers, brokers, CEO's of large corporations, religious leaders, politicians, etc, etc, etc. All of them needed one thing in common to succeed in deceiving innocent people.......What was it they all required to be so cunningly clever?

They ALL needed a GOOD unsound education, filled with unsound perceptions of life!

All taught by an unsound education systems that lacked true purpose, objectivity and balance.

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught." -Oscar Wilde

Lots of academic degrees were award to many students ...But No degrees of wisdom were handed out...How could there be?  Who is there teaching in the universities that understands the true meaning of life and how to combine it in all subjects? Educating students should not be solely a scholastic application. Whilst it is true many advancements have been made in many fields such as medicine and science, humanity, in terms of genuine happiness and serenity, is worse off today then they were thousands of years ago. Advancement in knowledge should not mean a slide in joy, so why is it we have such a web of ignorance in academia?

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in." -Will Rogers

Natural intelligence is the mastery primitive man used to feed their intellects in order to prosper...In today's world, the intellect replaces natural universal intelligence by virtue of an inflated ego. It then tries to invent new intelligent systems, modes, mental conditioning, that seem clever, chic and sensible, but is no more that a bunch of erroneous, man-made pointless theories.

• How many teachers and professors are centered and balanced, do not have any partisan, one-sided associations and not an ounce of hatred or jealously in them?

• How many teachers and professors do not try an protect their turf and their academic understanding of the word... truthfulness?

• How many headmasters, deans and professors in academia are open to at least listen to the authentic meaning of life, that did not stem from the proud words contained in the text books of academia?

• How many universities do not have a political leaning to the left or the right?

• If all the teaching in university text books is sound, why are the headlines of the newspapers filled with scandalous going -on and heinous actions in every area of human society?

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you really want to know why clever people be-lie-ve in so many unsound thoughts......

Go to university and find out......

© By Michael Levy. June 2003