Whither human nature

In the wee hours of this morning, after I woke up in a sweat out of a nightmare, I had a distinct memory of hearing my dad saying,"Nothing in the world is going to change unless human nature changes." He actuallyused to say that. Sort of a simple wisdom, but basically it's valid. Human nature keeps showing signs of changing, oh, you know, like people sharing food - major forward progress for us! - but any forward progress is soon eradicated by the likes of the people in power now, and pretty much all over the world. And those pitiful little areas where we cling together and try to break out of the eternal mode of greed, selfishness and dishonesty seem constantly to get overtaken by the bad behaving ones. It's as close as one's own neighborhood. If we can't keep it from rearing its vile head on that small of a scale, how to thwart it on a global one?
Slow pleasant day, enjoyable evening. My dear friend who can make vegan food delectable had me over for dinner. I watched her put together a wonderful pizza and a spaghetti squash saute, as well as baked apples with chunks of ginger cookies, caramel swirl tofu ice cream and multi spice brown sugar and substitute butter sauce. I brought a bottle of Sicilian white wine, and we had a great repast, even with fending off the pizza-crazed chihuahuas. Sharing food good.
Her partner, my son and a good friend of theirs appeared a bit later to polish off the rest of the dinner.
To bed again with Vollmann's Europe Central. One of the things about it that gives me the horrors is the parallels it shows between the WWII years in Germany and the Soviet Union and today. Vollmann calls Hitler "the sleepwalker," a moniker I'm trying to decipher. The quality of the writing is very good, so I will continue to hew away at its 780+ pages.