Human Weakness Part 1

One thing that I ponder on a regular basis, just a little question I have; Why do people think that we are the most advanced species? With all of the lies, wars, commercialism, consumerism, all kinds of 'isms, sheer fine-tuned corruption and/or the fact that people have put up with it for this long; How can we humans actually think we are the most advanced? One thing we are number one at is being gullible. If human beings are so smart, than why can't we tell when we're being lied to? Especially when it's on a massive scale. It seems as though the bigger the lie, the more likely people will believe it. Perhaps to some people the ability to lie and cheat makes them feel more advanced. I view liars as poison to society. Plants and animals don't lie incessantly to one another (as far as I can tell). That's one reason why I enjoy gardening, plants never lie to you about what they need. The universe is built on fundamental honesty, brutal honesty. A butterfly is a beautiful insect, however if that butterfly rests too close to a hungry frog, no amount of beauty could save it from being eaten. There's no coercion, no debate, only honest action. The hungry animal will eat another form of life when it is hungry. You don't get much more simple than that and that is precisely the honesty the universe lives by. We humans fill our minds with delusions everyday. So at a fundamental level, our species are disobeying the basic rules of the universe. This inability to live honestly could be the downfall of our species. Unlike something like  carpentry, the ability to lie is all in our heads. The lie is a construct of our imagination which causes negative changes in the real, physical, honest universe.  One type of person may see lying as an advantage, a way to trick less clever people into personal gain. Another type of person sees lying as deception. A road block in the way of natural progress. (Honesty is allowing things to happen naturally) I can't see there being much middleground here. Someone who takes a genuine stance against dishonesty, however finds no problem lying themselves I think is unlikely. As a whole, gullibility is a massively great weakness. Perhaps the root of the weakness is man's missing ability to ponder. I am sitting here thinking, analyzing and questioning this great problem, while the majority of people don't reflect on humanity's problems, let alone reflect at all. I don't want to go as far as to say that people don't think, although when they do think the thoughts are not questions or focused. If there is no one available that someone feels is satisfactory to answer their questions, they wont ask them. Is it willful ignorance or trained ignorance? Either way I'm perplexed. On top of it all, the world we live in praises this ignorance and rewards liars, promoting the lifestyle of a filthy liar as someone who got where they are by being clever. When really they got where they are by playing people's naively tuned heart-strings. Well-meaning, unsuspecting decent people who rarely lie themselves are seen as targets, instead of being seen as they are which is a normal good human being. Sometimes good people get pushed around so much that they start to behave badly themselves. The ones who see deception as a  tool of the clever are so stupid they don't even realize that they are the stupidest out of all of us, because they are acting like a road block in the way of the natural forward progress of our species. They don't see that they are lying to themselves more than anyone else. Eliminate the weakness and those who feed on the weakness should eventually starve and deplete. I can't avoid thinking about the people I have met that have had the kinds of personalities that like to exploit those who are filled with good intentions. I consider myself to be someone with a good heart and almost full of good intentions, however now I leave some space for wariness and skepticism or wary skepticism. Maybe people need to have their good nature exploited in order to learn what kinds of clever people are out there. Trust me, there are many deceivers out there chomping at the bit to exploit those people.