Good post.
Humans never seem to learn from the past.
Our hubris will be our downfall.
Sadly we are "educated" to believe we are at the peak of our evolution however I believe we are devolving as a species.
Reality TV and it's ratings is a great example of the idiocracy we currently live in. A modern day " bread and circus" for the masses programming people to embrace stupidity.
Divide and conquer is a millennia old control mechanism that still seems to work adequately in our era.
Until we realise this and seek to break the chains of mass control by a corrupted media under the influence of an even more sick and twisted Oligharchy I fear that world peace and an end to war is impossible.