The Error that is Man

[Ironside]

So Bijo, how's your plan going to join the enlightment, like the rest of us? Following the contradictions of the original statement, I would say that it doesn't like it, but I'm not the man that judge people on insufficient data.

In fact, it seems mankind is doing it's best in societies where survival is barely granted - on some piece of floating ice near the North pole or in some isolated rain forest with poisonous snakes and frogs.
But we are really bad at adapting to having a too easy time surviving - then competition, bloodshed, war, genocide, rape, slavery, repression and fundamentalism arises.

While a few these requires a larger society to "function", most if them stem from having too much compition from limited resources.