Why then are there wars, conflicts and unrest still?
Because the political class claims their usurped authority of rulership equates to leadership, and have convinced enough people to kill and die for the interests of that ruing class. Just look at the Donbas. Why would Russia and Ukraine be bickering over land and people? Why are soldiers signing up to go to war over land where they have no eprsonal attachment beyond this artificial nationalism?
Have you read US Marine Corps Major General (sorry about all the titles) Smedley Butler's book, War is a Racket? He details his own observations from a long and storied career to conclude that the military exists to enrich corporate interests and empower politicians. I don't entirely agree with his proposed solutions, but he makes a lot of good points.
The Christmas Truce that first winter of WW1 was an opportunity to avoid the Flanders Fields slaughter. But after celebrating Christmas and peace, they went back to obedience to politics and waging war. It's the saddest story I know from that era, becaus etheir obedience to authority and belief in war led at least in part to every tragedy that followed - the rise of Communist revolutionaries in Russia, debt, inflation, central bank power, Hitler (Godwin's Law invoked!) the Cold War, re-mapping the Middle East... it's all a consequence of the supposed virtue of martial obedience.
I can't disagree with your quite excellent comment. All I can say is, people are nutbags.
I don't know the answers to your questions or to mine however don't feel like there's much hope for humanity, and your comment cements that thought.
We're only about 160 years past the era of chattel slavery in the US. While the Civil War was objectively not waged with the goal of ending slavery on the part of the Union, it was necessary for Lincoln to fully embrace the fringe abolitionist rhetoric to justify the ongoing conflict and imbue it with a sense of moral crusade. This wasn't long after the British and French ended slavery in a haphazard but non-warlike fashion. Progress looks slow when you are building toward it. We may well be on the cusp of a "Great Awakening" of individual responsibility and rejection of coercion.
I'm not counting on it, I'm just saying I'm not "black-pilled" on human progress.
I'll be be dead inside of 20-30 years, or even much sooner perhaps; once that occurs I'll not know what happens...but the trajectory we're all on doesn't bode very well in my opinion and I don't see enough action occurring to alter the (seemingly) inevitable destination. I could be wrong, of course, it will all play out after I'm gone, you too probably...and in the meantime all the little things we roll over and accept, the wrongs that slowly become acceptable to the majority, mount up, and compound.
It's just my opinion based on what I see, what I've seen and been through and the fact that humans are very slow to learn in respect of something positive and very quick when it comes to creating conflict and ways to destroy each other.