I think if we better understood the dynamics driving our behavior, we would be better able to understand and moderate them, before they totally spin out of control.

For example, understanding the feedback driving the accumulation of power and wealth, that needs some degree of circuit breaker, before it totally goes parabolic and tears apart society. The Ancients devised debt jubilees as just such a circuit breaker and Michael Hudson wrote a book a few years ago, called, "Forgive Them Their Debts," that ties together much of history as a competition between economic and political forces. Here is a review;

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/04/the-delphic-oracle-was-their-davos-a-four-part-interview-with-michael-hudson-about-his-forthcoming-book-the-collapse-of-antiquity-part-1.html