But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I WOULDARGUE not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are CAPABLE of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
Almost ANYTHING is better than three NETWORK TV outlets completely CONTROLLING the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've MOVED a LONG way from that, and that's important.
The REAL world is FAR too COMPLEX and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own EVOLUTION or ENGINEERING itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
We can USE techniques in modifying THINGS, in controlling things, but the first IMPULSE has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is NOTHING but technique that you're exercising.
I define SOCIALISM as the government controlling the means of production. I don't think the ANSWER to some of the big vesting problems we have in this COUNTRY are to solve them entirely with a government-only solution.