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I'm glad you appreciate it, it was as much an excuse for me to unload that rant as anything else :)
But we actually get into trouble when our models of reality are poor. Our nature isn't self destructive at all, look at how many times we've been at the brink of nuclear annihilation and someone said, "actually don't", some of them in defiance of entrenched power structures that punished them for it.
We've had that world ending button for most of the last century, and we've never used it. If we really, on an instinctual level, were self-destructive we never would've evolved.
I think the real problem is the power structures that dominate us, and how we allow them to. They are aberrant, like tumours. They have an endless growth strategy, which just like in malignant tumours tend to kill the host. If they're destroyed, the host can go on to live a complete life.
And things can change fast, these structures are tenacious but fragile. Look at the UHC assassination - claims immediately started getting approved. After decades of entrenched screwing over of people, they flipped on their back the moment they were threatened. How many other seemingly intractable problems could be cut out tomorrow if we applied the right kind of pressure?