I agree with both of y'all, don't know how, but i do.
It does seem that gov's, politically influenced science, etc. does spend a lot of money on either inconsequential stuff or on just plain destructive stuff...and could do a lot more towards the constructive...but yeah like Senote said, humanity as a whole isn't ready for a mostly constructive and more collective based way of life yet. Meanwhile, we're learning from all the difficult stuff we're manifesting for ourselves.
The times of constructive and more collectived based way of life will come, meanwhile i suppose the only completely constructive thing to worry or think about, is how constructively we live our lives, and i do believe there is a constructive/creative and destructive though it is somewhat relative to the individual depending.