This document discusses how human civilization is facing one of its biggest challenges due to intellectual regression. It argues that humans have always adapted to constant change, but now stagnation and laziness have set in. People no longer feel the need to constantly learn and improve. They have also lost the ability to think critically and avoid generalizing entire groups. This intellectual regression has allowed racism and discrimination to re-emerge and threatens the future of human civilization.

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Heraclitus,
a philosopher, and theorist
who lived in Ephesus, near modern Kusadasi,
Turkey, around 500 B.C. He created doctrines
about the constant change and flux of life. To
the most of us, he is known by a saying
"change is the only constant in life."
It is also translated to
"the only constant is change."
The constant presence of change has always been a driving
force of evolution. There was a time in the history when the
change occurred suddenly by drastically changing the
environment and causing the extinction of many species.
Those who managed to adopt, survived, and thrived.
Perhaps by now we would extinct if not for our ability to
adopt. In response to the constantly changing environment,
we were forced to strive for becoming stronger by learning
new things. Our will to survive has solidified our resilient nature
and allowed human civilisation to continue its journey.

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For so many years the response to the change delivered
excellent results, as we managed to grow not just
intellectually but also spiritually. We have reached the level
whereby we have set sights on the role which was exclusively
a privilege of nature. We have succeeded in our first attempts
to create artificial intelligence.
Today, however, we are facing the scale of the change. It is
going to be the biggest test we have ever experienced
throughout the entire history. It has real potential to destroy
not only our civilization but the whole life on this planet.
This time, the danger is not coming from space or forces of
nature. The deadly threat has emerged from within human
race itself.
Due to its insidious nature, this threat grew within our society
slowly and quietly. Nobody would be able to identify exactly
when it started to manifest itself. Most likely, we have
unwillingly created a very fertile ground for it to grow when
we began to lose touch with reality.
Without knowing it, we started to feed this monster by feeling
comfortable with our daily lives and somehow missed a very
important detail. Our survival has been possible because of
our ability to adopt. It has been possible only because we
had to constantly improve our capacity as a species to
withstand the forces of change.

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Perhaps our false feeling of comfort somehow dulled our
desire for constant improvement. We had no clue that our
misunderstanding of the evolutionary achievement could
trigger the chain of events that would challenge the
existence of our civilisation.
Since we made this huge mistake, we started to stagnate in
our intellectual development and later the process of
stagnation transformed into regress.
With intellectual regress, there was no oxygen for spirituality
to survive. Our desire to constantly learn was replaced with a
sense of indifference. We became lazy.
Somehow, we sensed that something is wrong. That is why
many of us express concern over many things that we
thought need to change. However, due to our intellectual
regress and mental laziness, we did not want to think.
Therefore, we grossly underestimated the scale of fast
changing environment.
Because we could no longer understand our environment,
most of us started to blame everyone or everything for our
failure. The anger made us lose our ability of objective
assessment with regards to circumstances and events. It
started to affect every aspect of our life.
Due to lack of clarity we became judgmental. We forgot that
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restrain ourselves from doing the same. We could not realise
that if we do not understand other people’s way of life it does
not mean that they are wrong.
Before long, our mental laziness has started shaping up into
something very ugly. Our intellectual regress revived the virus
that we thought we have managed to kill, racism.
With our fast-shrinking ability to think, we could no longer see
the difference between right and wrong. We almost lost our
ability to critically assess our own actions and views.
Therefore, our words do not match with our actions anymore.
On one had we praise tolerance, mutual respect and
condemn discrimination. But at the same time we apply
labels, generalising the entire race or region. Without
realising it we became racists.
When rapid acceleration of intellectual regress has reached
critical point, it triggered an event that just a few decades
ago would be viewed by many people as something
unthinkable.
Citizens of the country which has always been considered as
a land of free elected a person as their President. Their choice
has shocked the entire world.
The reason for such worldwide reaction was the entire set of
facts which clearly illustrate that this person cannot be

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trusted. It is well documented that he cannot finish a sentence
without contradicting himself a few times. His entire
administration consists of representatives who vividly display
the enormous degree of intellectual disability.
But the scary part is that these people, who are now in power,
are not ashamed to show that they are not smart. They
proudly announce that they have discovered something
entirely new for us to enjoy - "Alternative Facts".
Fortunately, there is hope that we still have a chance to
survive. Although we almost lost our ability to think, we can
still reactivate it. If we manage to jump-start our intellect, we
would be able to see things clearly.
We will see that those who contradict themselves constantly,
cause destruction instead of creating something, proudly
announce that they did not pay taxes instead of contributing
to society, bankrupt businesses instead of creating jobs,
spread hatred among nations, disrespect other people
because of different gender, religion, nationality, race, or
sexual orientation, shall be in no position to lead.
Instead, they must be isolated as a very dangerous virus.