You know I agree with you, and we've been in agreement for some time. Now that we're in the full-on "they're saying all the quiet parts out loud" stage, more people are waking up to that truth.
And there's the difference between you and me. I have no hope about the world we're in, and I have no hope about the world we'll have when the dust settles.
We tried this exercise once or twice before. It didn't solve a goddamn thing then, it won't solve a goddamn thing now. The "utter depravity of man" is our natural low spot. Like water, we will always and forever flow towards and seek that low spot, and find it.
We literally bombed the last round of Nazis into submission, leaving them with little but piles of rubble and suffering. And here they are again. There's no getting rid of them. We can just knock them back - at hideous cost - every few generations, at best. I hate them. Because all it takes is one relatively small group to decide "let's take humanity on a ride to a pure hellscape," and we all have to go along with them. We have no choice. They are the turd in the punch bowl that turns the entire contents of that bowl into a bowl of shit punch. It takes most everyone opting into democracy and humanity to make those work. It just takes a small percentage -- think 15-20% -- opting for authoritarian, racist, violent hell, to make that the order of the day. They will continue to do so, time and time again. They want pain and suffering. And they're going to get what they want.