Is knowledge the root of all evil?

[Aoi Magi]

But Aoi, what if the truth for us primates really still is the law of the jungle from whence we came and violence is our only true universal language?

Trump didn't become a billionaire by being a nice man... Neither did humans conquer the food chain by being nice to other animals...

Man never was as physically capable as many of the animals in the food chain, yet we triumphed because we had more knowledge than them. It was because we had the knowledge to weaponize ourselves did we manage to be more violent. But it was also our lack of knowledge which prevented us from finding better ways of survival and co-existence.

If Trump doesn't play it nice with China, his fortune, himself, and the rest of us will all go extinct with him.
If we don't start playing nice with the animals and bees, we will go extinct with them.

Lack of knowledge might offer the illusion of short-term victories, but without knowledge there is no foresight, and without foresight there is no survival.