There are a lot of intelligent individuals out there, but I notice the more individuals you get together the more the group's actions and decisions look regressed. Humankind in corporate and national levels seems to behave roughly like gradeschool children and infants. On the whole I see Humankind as bacteria colony on a petri dish with the directives to feed and grow.
While I think that's entirely correct in some ways in others I think its mistaken, bacteria all consume the same amount for instance, while the same could not possibly be said for humans and the consumption rates of some of the population jeopardises the welfare of the rest of us.