I still have hope that our Intelligence will eventually mature enough that we can focus on overcoming our faults successfully. We have developed a lot socially already, History shows a progression of sophistication in our thinking, avoiding past mistakes. However, it certainly also shows how some of our mistakes lead to civilization collapses before correcting those mistakes. If ours collapses too, hopefully it will be slow and gradual, to minimize the possibility of rash actions.
Hopefully. One of the really interesting things about our species is that we'll reach a point where we're able to take over the process of evolution as it pertains to us and other species. As our understanding of DNA and RNA increases along with potential methods of manipulating it, we may take the evolutionary process in hand and start to curate our species. It could be a good thing or an awful one, but we're heading towards having that ability and it's no longer science fiction. We could very well be limited by our intelligence ceiling in our ability to understand more about nature. It takes exceptions to the norm like Einstein to make leaps in understanding no one else can make, that once made allow our understanding of nature to increase. If we gain the ability to increase our intelligence via genetic manipulation, it could be what drives us forward and gives us new understandings and ways to use nature we would have never been able to conceive of otherwise.
The challenge is collectively seeing our species reach a majority view of working towards positive goals and sharing a collective value in those goals. Currently we're killing ourselves slowly via our dominant economic system that ignores everything in the pursuit of increasing economic dominance. The system ultimately serves no real end game value, it's just used to incentivize people to go out and be productive.
We'll need to find a way to incentivize innovation without a capitalist system for things to turn around, imo. Alternately find a way to remove corruption from capitalism and somehow infuse it with notions of real societal returns. You can see some innovators starting to have this sort of vision, Elon Musk comes to mind. But we're still a long way out when you have politicians denying reality and science because their pockets are being padded by the wealthiest profiteers who care for nothing but increasing their wealth at the expense of everyone's future.
Right now capitalism is really just the best of a pile of stinky turds. We need something better in the long game. A puny minority ever increasing a number in their bank account is not really serving any good and is doing a lot of harm. The core values of the system are largely negative and reap destruction on multiple fronts.
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