PS We CAN help ourselves. The formation of tribes allowed us to combine our weak Executive Functions in order to overcome our lizard brain selfish emotions. Unfortunately, we evolved to not know the difference between leaders and bullies, and that mistake has snowballed into a system run by the mean Mean doing everything it can to keep us individuated and selfish because "money says so".

It's also why Republicans have always been so anti-'communist' in words, but anti-cooperative in deeds.