The Human Race: Is it our destiny to destory ourselves?

in short: the human race hasn't grown up (yet). The ones who live by the motto ''survival of the fittest'' are the ones who keep the human race from developping, i.e. who want to keep us in the wild animal kingdom. They say: it's a principle of nature. But it isn't. It is not a principle but only the first step in evolution. The next step is to overcome it and develop our minds and spirits and with it our ethics and morals and our awareness of the value of life in itself. Animals (or rather most animals) are incapable of that. We are, because we are on the verge of comprehending what life is really about. But it seems that most people don't want it and rather have a need for other people (authority) telling them what to do which again makes the wrong people powerful because those who accept being an authority usually abuse their power in some way or other. We may have gambled our chances as a species... may be we can still save our souls as individuals