There is no doubt that the people are literally brainless.
An easy way to test if brain is present or not is to test for person's priorities.
Basically, if person spends most of his time doing irrelevant things while ignoring actual big problems, we can say for sure that person is brainless.
Sadly, most people spend their entire lives complaining about, yet doing nothing about big problems in life.
Big problems in life such as wars, pollution, debt...ect. seem to have no solution, at least not if we listen to most people.
So if their brain works on the principle of "there are no solutions to big problems", of course then it cannot solve any big problems.
I have observed that most of the big problems in life can only be solved if people abandon the principle of competition.
For example, USA must have big military to compete with Russia. In order to have big military, it must have big economy. In order to have big economy, it must pollute a lot, produce a lot of trash, and it must try to install its rule all over the world and claim resources from many different places.
Thus, we see that from a mere premise of "We must compete with Russia", many problems arise and there is no way to solve them unless premise is abandoned.
But how to abandon a premise which neither Russia nor USA want to abandon?
If USA was to abandon the premise that it must compete with Russia, USA would lose its position in the world and US economy would likely collapse.
Thus, the only way to abandon the premise of competition is to completely abandon all principles which make such competition necessary.
Thus, US economy would need to become something new, so it no longer has to compete for power.
But if neither US nor Russia back down, the outcome becomes obvious. They will compete for power and resources, they will compete to increase militay as much as they can, and world will become much poorer and violent as a result.
Thus, we see that unless premise of competition is abandoned, the world will only become worse and worse, because the very premise of competition demands constant wars, constant increase in military, constant struggle for power all over the world, constant battle for resources, which in the end costs a lot of money and the cost increases constantly over time as all sides invest more and more to destroy the other.