Homo sapien, from the Latin "lovable, to be sure, but a damn stubborn fool"

Homo sapien. Latin translation for "wise man". "Clever man". "All-too-clever man." And the most ridiculous mess of stubborn foolishness that humankind, so called, has ever known.

Quick question: If you bully Galileo into recanting a heliocentric solar system, or any other fact of the known or unknown universe, does that, in fact, mean that the known universe revolves around the earth? Or the pope? Or your bank account? Or your powerful perch? Or whatever selfish impulse suits you, that afternoon?

If homo sapiens bully those other homo sapiens who tell you that bullying homo sapiens to solve their problems, generally, makes those problems and those homo sapiens worse, does that, in fact, make those homo sapiens and those problems and the state of the species better? If you bully those who tell you that bullying, punishing, and otherwise aggressively leveraging problems from our midst does not, in fact, resolve them, often makes them more difficult and painful, and often makes life quite needlessly destructive and tragic, does that, in fact, resolve those problems by pretending them from their midst?

If you are a member of the only remaining species from the animal family Hominidae, circa its entire known existence, perhaps you might be so foolish to pay cash money for that bullshit.

Homo sapiens sapiens. The only species on earth that can contemplate the depth of such questions of their existence and, simultaneously, dramatically and destructively, fail such questions and all the real and meaningful matters they touch by failing to seriously contemplate them at all.

Until the rest of the human species figures out what just how stupid and stubborn the rest of the human species really is.