Is the egocentric based spirit of competition going to ultimately lead to the total annihilation of mankind?

Is what seems to me to have become an obsession with competitive activities which has carried over into the minds of the majority of humans as a way of seeing all relationships with other humans as well as all of life in general, going to lead to the eventual total mutual self destruction of the entire human race? I notice this type of mentality amongst many in my environment. It seems as though they have one overwhelming desire in life which is to either completely conquer others and have them in their complete control or to destroy them if they are unwilling to yield to their control. It seems that these types of people do not have enough intelligence or perhaps it is a special quality of dharma to go with the intelligence to be able to attain what Richard Maurice Bucke called "cosmic consciousness". See here: a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Buc..." rel="nofollow"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Buc…/a . Without cosmic consciousness egocentric men will not only feel alienated from each other but from their entire environment as well