Are we doomed, or there is still hope?

Question from the Internet:

“Did humans invent government due to a lack of faith in one another and or due to a fear of one another?”

Yes. Everything we have ever created, built, all our social, cultural, economic, and religious engagements are desperate attempts to try to build and sustain human societies, co-existence against our inherently selfish, individualistic, exploitative egos.

This uniquely human ego — the only thing that differentiates us from other animals — drives us towards ruthless, exclusive competition, excessive overconsumption at the expense of others and Nature. It is this ego that is behind all our helplessly recurring vicious historic cycles as none of the arrangements listed above is strong enough to counter the ever-growing, insatiable desire of the ego.

We are again facing a potential world war, only 80 years after the last one ended since those who lead societies — the most selfish and egoistic among the 100% selfish, egoistic humanity — simply cannot stop pulling the trigger even when they know they will also die. We are like cancer, we are playing Russian Roulette without leaving any bullets out of the revolver guaranteeing destruction and self-destruction.

We keep talking about a global world, where we are all interdependent, where we all sit on the same boat, still, we cannot hold back from injecting negative influence, drilling holes on the wall of the boat underneath each other despite knowing that we will all sink and drown.

We have no hope for a better future — for any future in fact — unless we learn how to overcome, restrict and then purposefully, positively use the irrepressible power of the ego for collective, mutually acceptable, mutually beneficial goals, purpose.