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I believe that the human race as a whole is not as advanced or intelligent as we would like to think we are. CMV.

I go out everyday and see people who have been conditioned to live up to certain expectations that society gives to us. As I've traveled and met new people in different countries I've found that freedom does not exist in the way people would think. Sociologically speaking each society has it's own set of expectations set up for it's citizens. Because of this I've come to think that we are easily "sheeped" into thinking we are free and intelligent based on standards that humans set up for ourselves.

Looking at the amount of time humans have been in existence from a science perspective, we may have had fast growing technology to our own standards but we also have had many set backs in what I would believe to be the wrong areas. These things include not learning from the past, genocide, racism ect. All these things keep us from advancing in my opinion. Put this along with the amount of low socioeconomic families that have a constant cycle of poverty each generation as they procreate creating a never ending cycle of de-evolution I find that our most basic pack instincts prove just how not evolved we are and that the only thing that separates us from the apes is that we can contemplate our own morality, have higher reasoning skills and do what we consider advanced math.

I've also heard somewhere that 50% of the things we believe to be true are false. I don't know where I've heard this and I have no idea if it is true or not but I would tend to believe it.

Human error runs rampant and is part of our everyday lives and we've created computers that have surpassed us in intelligence, (Which is awesome) but I also tend to believe that the standard of intelligence is set by ourselves and from the looks of it we are only inherently intelligent to a degree.

Because we have only been around for such a short amount of time and we are small creatures on a large planet in an even larger and greater universe I've come to believe that we has a race is rather dumb in our self superior thinking.

My thinking is not really all that cynical, I just kind of ranted so I apologize for this being all over the place.

Before someone points out the obvious I also accept that I may or may not have been conditioned to think this way from my elders and the influence of information overload.
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Here's the biggest problem with your thoughts: the only benchmark we have is ourselves.  That is, we don't have some advanced race to compare ourselves to and say: "gee, our society sucks," or "gee, our technology sucks."

So if you look at human history, we're not doing too bad for ourselves as a whole.  Yes, there's still plenty of bad things going on and we have plenty of room for improvement -- no argument there.  However, we can look at just 100 years ago or so and consider that we've jumped forward a reasonable amount in societal changes and immensely in technology.

Just 100 years ago, women were not allowed to vote nor really expected/allowed to hold jobs, blacks (and other minorities) were lawfully discriminated against, and a homosexual person would have to stay in Narnia to be safe.  Again, it's not perfect now and it varies country to country, but we've come a little ways.

Just 100 years ago, a computer was a far off dream.   There were adding machines, but anything resembling modern computers wouldn't originate until much later.  Modern rocketry was in its infant stages.  There was no such thing as the internet.  In about 50 (much less 100) years, our technological progress has skyrocketed -- literally in some ways.  We've sent men to the moon.  We've sent probes out of the solar system.  We've sent probes to mars.  We've sequenced the human genome.  We've developed computers that fit in our palm, that would have taken warehouse upon warehouse of computing materials to match just 50 or so years ago.  We have the internet.  Instantaneous connection to the world at our fingertips.  If you looked at a graph of technological progress alone, it would steadily rise until it spiked ridiculously hard from about 1950 onward.

I think the human race still has a ways to go until it reaches its final cultural/technological evolution, but we've come a reasonably long way.