"What Lack I Yet?"

I have decided there are two things in this world that have an enormously detrimental effect on the global society:

1) Apathy
2) Stupidity

I also believe that the latter hinges on the former. If people lose desire to change and grow, intelligence levels will decrease dramatically. The desire to change yourself, or the world around you is powerful enough to drive people to do extraordinary things, the lack of such doesn't seem to cause colossal failure - that would be welcomed. Instead individuals, entire cultures even, seem to rock themselves into an apathetic coma, crippling any possible good that can come from those people.

The lack of intelligence spawns from from apathy. Individuals may be born without knowledge, but all are intelligent. Intelligence is something inherently present in all, and is something that must be lost, or willfully given away; that's when scary things happen. I believe all evil is a result in a lack of intelligence. Everything bad that has ever happened (that I can think of) can be traced to a single action, I believe, committed without intelligence.

Don't lose desire - it's the bottleneck that leads to the downfall of all that is good.