Yes, I believe that people are essentially good, and heroic in fact. Life is also essentially good. Nature is essentially good. The World is essentially good. And it's all alive and expressing as as a single Unity.

The problem in many people's consciousness is that they are quite unaware of that Unity, and they feel alone, isolated and afraid. This leads them to behave in a destructive fashion...but for reasons that seem good to them...because they don't see the whole picture.