Really

Thinking about it, all idealism came to a grinding halt sometime in the 1920s, when Communism turned totalitarian, Fascism entered the living rooms, and the world economies were begging for war fuel. The cynical decades that followed where but a reckoning with human nature. We are after all nothing but the pinnacle of the primate world. Whether we make it to Mars, or turn our garbage into drinking water, we are nothing more than a species concerned with survival. It remains to be seen, who is the fittest.