The Smartest Idiots

We are the only species clever enough to engineer our own extinction and arrogant enough to call it progress.

We trade time for money and call it ambition.

Drown in information and starve for meaning.

Praise freedom while begging to be ruled.

Invent machines that think faster than us and then ask them what it means to be human.

We are brilliant.

We are monstrous.

We are toddlers with flamethrowers.

The earth will survive us. It always planned to.

It will shake us off like a fever.

And the worms will inherit the libraries we left behind.

Not because they are wise but because they are quiet.