I absolutely agree with everything you said, Alan.
Of course the drive for money, power, ownership will, unless we change our ways, negate all hope.
I once dealt with a horrible situation in my classroom, and in the discussion, moved them on to tell me what the boys had engaged in. Eventually I got the word I wanted, war!
For the rest of the year, whenever trouble was brewing, I'd hear from the kids...That's war!
I was so delighted.