Maybe stop thinking of ridding ourselves of them, first. Maybe apprexiate that they exist for a reason, they are evolutionarily advantageous. They're not inherently evil or bad.

Then, embracing that reality, we can start to consider ways to channel them so we're intelligently charting our course rather then these intrinsic parts of ourselves as a species being used to manipulate the masses by the selfish/sociopathic few or drifting into aberrance and extremism by (societal) environmental circumstance.

Maybe we need to learn to work with ourselves instead of trying to remake ourselves all the damn time, in other words. It just seems to create more and more drama.