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Is human nature designed to prevent us from progressing beyond our capabilities?

It seems we have built-in speed bumps to prevent us from extending beyond certain capabilities. For example, on an individual level we might be (super) shy which blocks us from becoming too socially active. Likewise, as a human race, we subject ourselves to death and destruction at regular intervals which prevents us from advancing civilization beyond a certain point by keeping us distracted by killing each other. Is this dynamic some form of divine intervention?

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Senorbossitronia · M

i agree on the speed bumps. there are many things that we see in movies that no matter how much we wish it just is physically impossible. take for example time travel. Newton said if you could move faster than light, then you were beating time. however the more you think about it you realize he was right to a degree. You may be moving faster than light, and beating how we measure time, but that's just it. how we measure and perceive time. Going faster than light doesn't make you pass through time, it just means that you are moving faster than that unit of measurement.