humans are intelligent bacteria

First off i would like to acknowledge my incredibly intelligent human friends that make me think and grow all the time. like seriously, all yall thoughts challenge me and i really feel lucky to think the way i do and a lot of it is to do with you guys.  so much of why other people outside of us think I hold any form of intellect is because of you guys. the way i think and speak and feel. thank yall so much

ok!

so what if we had a self destruct button? would we know how to use it? would be responsible with it?say if the button was set off at the right time that it would benefit the greater population, would we know when to press it? 

and say we did, since we've seen countless self-destructions before, its in our education, when to and when not to push it, how permanent the effect would be, who you would affect etc etc

what would the mortality rate be, what other issues would rise from it..

if death was that easy, would south korea be so hard on its students?

bacteria are actually able to do this. they do it under stress, leaking their internal systems so that their lifeless components can be recycled into the bacteria mass. Somehow, they coordinate to single out one or a few cells within the population to die for the greater good. They are able to regulate this ability so that it is beneficial for their colony.
they may not have human brains and do human things but they are capable of killing us and are more numerous than us. But, they also live really short lives and are spared by humans' greatest strength and greatest weakness: emotion . (emotion is also the cause for us to view a short life as a negative thing)

we may study them but they also study us in a less humanly intentional but more instinctive way that enables their survival. they are aware of us and act to respond to us. they can sense molecules (like say chemicals in our sweat) that we emit to move towards us, infecting us and colonizing, or just simply living in our gut and keeping us all happy. in truth, we need bacteria, and i guess they kinda need us.. but not really..

bacteria can live in other lifeforms to continue to rule the world. we on the other hand will not be able to digest food without them.  

we and every other lifeform are actually at the mercy of bacteria. every cow, fern, protist, algae, etc 

and we can all learn from bacteria. they are so successful because they work as a team.

how they evade antibiotics and immune systems and continue their population is all because they work together towards their uniform goals.

so humans are truly NOT that simple. we have emotion. we hurt each other and ourselves. bacteria dont do that. but bacteria do not experience a sense of loss or joy the way we do. but what is intelligence anyway? we're all trying to survive and satisfy our emotions.
Hell im making seemingly thoughtless bacteria emotional. using the term 'martyr' and painting an image that they are a hardworking, united and considerate community. but they cant think otherwise. they are just freakin bacteria. 

i suppose in the end humans are bacteria are totally different,  with different goals as such. is survival the definition of success? is it better to be simple or complex? is it better to feel great and feel like shit and create chaos or is it better to not feel at all and maintain order? is it even right to quantify and qualify these things? in the end, we all are just being. and being together. its too robotic for us (emotional fucks) to accept that progressing a population and assisting other members of our ecosystems is the natural goal. we can be influenced. we can be brainwashed. and we can hurt each other and our own emotions sometimes cause us to do shit that actually makes us feel worse.