Is Our Species Damned?

I am not talking about supernatural damnation, but, effectively, evolutionary termination. In other words, is human nature so rank with self interest that we will not be able to collectively get our act together to save not only our own hides but the planet itself (which is effectively the same thing). There are radical ideas that we are incurably selfish on a species level and therefore doomed. Some people are so disaffected by their fellow Man that they are supporting notions that alien stewards from another dimension are creating a hybrid race (the best of ET + the best of HS) to supplant us and start running the planet properly (KEY: ET= extra-terrestrial; HS=homo-sapiens). According to these proponents of purification, this new race will be perfectly rational and spiritual, and restore the planet to balance. They go on to state that a series of cataclysms will kill off regular human beings, and most of them will be reincarnated as invertebrate aquatic animals on another planet, rendered incapable of language, sight or creative output. What a lovely scenario! So what of the rest of the souls? Well, they get to be reincarnated as the new elite hybrids. This whole sterile and purgative belief system (yet another nightmarish form of apocalyptic asceticism) calls into question the value of some very important qualities that we consider to be important expressions of our spirituality, such as emotional passion, sensuous appreciation of nature, artistic communion between the cosmos and our inner being. The health of the rational mind is informed by the flourishing of the heart. To extinguish all appetite or impetus for individual expression is to kill the most promising dynamic of humanity. We are a blundering species, but we are also one that is progressing. The diversity of experience on this planet is taking a long time to get everyone on the same page, but once we do, their will be great heights we will attain in moral, scientific, humanitarian, socio-economic and socio-political spheres. We are a risky species in terms of our destructive potential, but to see ourselves as a failed species is to throw out the good and wonderful achievements of many millions of remarkable men and women over time. Those men and women were emotional as well as intellectual. They found that exercising both sides of their being in concert to be beneficial to their society. We must not lose faith in ourselves! Just look at the articulate hands at the end of your arms and think of what that anatomical design has created in terms of the history (and prehistory!) of our species! So don't give up on yourself or your fellow human beings! Celebrate your potential and use it for the good of all! And is it not a better and mentally healthier notion of the future that we will one day shake hands in fellowship with other sentient beings in the universe, achieving this contact as imperfect (but philosophically progressive) human beings? Will it matter that our interplanetary friends may be superior to us in intellect and civilization? If it does (to either party), then "friendship" will not be how one should define it. Whatever the case may be, let us think in terms of fostering partnership with the healthy forces of the universe -- not with anything that has to do with our own self-abnegation!