Thinking Intellectuals do you feel we (human beings) are on a collision course with ourselves?

This is such a loaded question. You assume that Intellectuals, actually think. Intellectuals are those who should be those who take time to achieve higher levels of education, but as we see more and more on news broadcasts. Many of those intellectuals who choose never to get out into the public sector and learn what life is all about but decide to become educators in halls of higher learning and vie for professorships and tenure, so no matter what vile stupidity they regurgitate from their mouths they cannot be fired. If a Student attempts to use logic in their classrooms they are blackballed as extremists or kooks or some other terrible name and thrown out of class. there is no debate any more in the halls of higher learning only indoctrination. It is quite possible that Communication is becoming a lost art. The ability of one to express their thoughts in such a way they the receiver can understand without threat or fear what the initial idea was. Is the culprit the US Dept. of Education who decides what states gets the big money for their schools based on what the NEA tells them? or is it the NEA who has been completely consumed by the socialist realm of operations. and forgetting about what Johnny needs to know to succeed in life. Just look at this new crap they are teaching now. no longer can you simply subtract 123 from 456 and get 333, now you have to use 37 steps to do what we learned to do in 3 steps. Its foolish. Now a days a kid cannot do anything without a calculator, all I had was a pencil paper and maybe a slide rule if I was doing calculus. kids today do not even know what a slide rule is. I even learned how to use an abacus. Schools today are Pitiful. Thinking Intellectuals... Naaa No collision unless they have a TomTom or a Garmand they sure cannot read a map.

When haven't we?

Isn't our entire history a series of conflicts with humans colliding with other humans?