Humans are more primitive than you think.
Take it all away, everything and what do you have?
A dysfunctional human. Go ahead and make a argument out of this fact. We have relied on technology to the point of just knowing how to eat. In ,000 years from now we will still be where we are today. Our technology will be our destruction, because we have borders that separate us all. We will never be as one, because of our primitive aggression, and predatory instincts. I missed a entry on our destruction, it’s only if we don’t destroy ourselves in the process
of advancing to our next level.
Of course, everyone has a opinion, but what are the opinions going to change? Nothing...

The only thing is, the goal of the evolutionary rat race, having many children, has been taken away, and in its place has been substituted the goal of having lots of money, which has little to no influence on the future of the species.

Those things which do have influence on the future of the species now are the birth of memes. Look at all the people now talking about inequality, how many of them were doing so before Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century?

The most influential thinkers of recent times, who really influenced the course of human thought and human history, were likely Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche. They are likely the most successful people from a modern evolution of the species perspective. We are part of an evolving meme culture, and human individuality is an illusion.

Pretty much why I call myself Savage. Ever hear of the wayseer manifesto. I think it's for you.

It's interesting to note that our technical progress has been awesome and extremely beneficial to us as a species. But our social progress is miserably lacking. Our focus has been on being the biggest, best, richest, most powerful etc and our evolutionary societal growth has been largely ignored. It's about time to turn that energy towards creating a world where we value our people more than we value our things!

As a species we have gone beyond natural selection. Look at the most successful people in our society, the likes of Elon Musk or Bill Gates, and see how many children they leave behind? Are they prolific in passing on their genes, which used to be the evolutionary criterium for success? You’d have to say only moderately. Musk has 5 living children, Gates 3. My great-great grandfather was not wealthy or powerful but came fathered a family of 12 children.

But there are relatively few other pressures of natural selection which are driving the general population, either in the direction of a unified perspective on society or a specific form of genetics. It seems we have arrived at a period where there is some selection due to wealth and beauty, but there is a lot of chaos in the general population.

We are very primitive and backsliding due to lack of natural selection. There is no process thinning our herd of the anti-social people in our midst.
To the contrary, in most of our cultures cruelty and ruthlessness is rewarded.

We will only move towards a civilized society when the qualities of civilized men and women are promoted at the expense of those who prey on people.

Yes we are still a primitive species and we shall remain so until we evolve and learn to; a) put aside all of our petty differences, understand that we ARE ALL members of just ONE species b) evolve beyond the need for superstitious beliefs. such as religions, etc, and that, c) the Universe existed long, long before humans ever came into being, the Sun does NOT rise and set at our Behest, c) the Universe WILL continue on long after humans are nothing more than atoms and molecules of the elements that once made us. We MUST evolve and learn to live as ONE peoples or we shall end up going the same way as the innumerable species that preceded us millions of years before we existed.

I've seen enough evidence in my lifetime to conclude that we are still a primitive species competing for survival. The Judeo-Christian culture was in opposition to this natural dilemma, striking back with the aspirational notion of every human being made in the image of God and therefore carrying a spark of divinity in their spirits. The doctrines are proved nonsense and the history one of terrible hypocrisy but we need to carry on with the idea of all human life being equal in the sight of society if not of a god.

I don't think we are a "primitive" species however we still haven't and might never grow out of our base instincts because we are animals first and foremost.

Modern humans have only existed for a couple hundred thousand years. Our common ancestor with apes dates back to about 8 million years ago. In between there were a number of lineages small populations that evolved in relative isolation, occasionally interbreeding, all except our own strand eventually going extinct. The biggest anatomical changes in these populations involved changes in brain size and cranial capacity. When one body part evolves faster than other parts this is sometimes called mosaic evolution. It was not the whole brain that changed. The cerebral cortex expanded the most, while the brain stem is essentially the same as it was in our early vertebrate ancestors. Some people refer to this primitive part as our "reptilian brain." Actually you could just as well call it our fish brain. It's this primitive part that drives deep-seated anxieties and knee-jerk reactions. Are we still a primitive species? You bet!

Yes and no. The biggest diffrence between us and most other creatures is our use of tools, comunication and writing. Yet we still respond to threats or stress with violence. Many still adhere to tribalism(this site could be an example)
Also, we are not done evolving. Time will tell what becomes of humanity.

Relative to our ancestors? No, but we still have primitive tendencies. We have advanced ages with our technology, but our mindset is still lacking in terms of social progress in my opinion. I think this might be true in general for humans, but more specifically with our "leaders" who seem to be further on the sliding scale of psychopathy.

Miles away for sure and I can prove it. Chimpanzees fling poop at each other. Humans now have hand dryers that fling fecal matter up to 20 feet away.

Humans are just slightly more advanced poop throwers!

"Civilized" really only means living in cities.

We are still small tribe savanna based mammals. And most of us are trapped by the genetics of "us and them." The initial advantage of loyalty to the group now results in billions indoctrinated into believing absurdities that no longer support wellbeing of the species.

I'd really recommend the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.

Yes, for all the reasons already posted.

Yes , very ! The French have a saying the more it changes, the mire it stays the same. We are encoded with agression which remains in us in perpetuity.

You are right. We need to go beyond the self centered notion that we only help each other for personal gain. I've always known that we will never evolve if we allow greed to rule is like it does.

We are as advanced as we can observe.
We are getting better and very fast.
Think that any low class citizen of a minimum organized country today have access to better health, hygiene, food and even tools/leisure time than the richest king of 300 years ago.
Hunger is going down, literacy is evolving, production of knowledge is accelerating, violent death ratio is decreasing.
There are hiccups and stones on the way, but we are sustematically overcoming them.
The real problem is people that in the name of fear or ignorance try to push back and say that we are getting worse.
Go for the real numbers not your feelings.

Yep, ???

As a species, humans in general are not very intelligent (inasmuch as "average" is more of a legitimate measure than the extremes). Consider that the average (mode) I.Q. is only 100. If one converses with a person with an I.Q. of 100 one quickly gets the impression that one is talking to a box of rocks.

In short, you are expecting way too much from the human species...you cannot "civilize" feces throwing monkeys. It explains how Trump got elected doesn't it.

As a guy with more than a touch of ADHD himself - yes there is hope for you. You just have to figure out a way to harness it, embrace it, and make it work. It's in our collective gene pool for an evolutionary reason. I got lucky and dumbed into a career that allows me to make it work most days. Would like to say I planed the path out, but that would be lying to myself.

And also yes - we are a somewhat primitive, and extremely tribal species. It's hard for a few millennia of civilization to undo millions of year of evolution and societal development.

We certainly have remnants of the genes. ADHD is one... think of how hyper chipmunks are - it was a survival mechanism. But humanity has reached the point where our heightened intellectualism can override our remnant instincts. Sometimes... some of us...