A chaotic, exploding America is not good for world peace!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readNov 8, 2020

Question from the Internet:

“Why is a chaotic and divided US a gospel and good news for the world peace?”

Well, by default it is not good news at all.

When a country - especially as powerful and significant as the US - is chaotic and divided, the usual “historic solution” for national unity is war with others. War is also the usual “solution” for unsolvable economic crisis.

And today we have both a social and an economic crisis not only in the US but all over the world!

Thus the fear is that either the US explodes inside (and spills to the rest of the world), or whoever leads America next will generate wars to diffuse the internal pressure and kickstart the economy as a result (which will not be successful).

In a more ideal, positive scenario both Americans and the rest of the world could use the divided American society as an example of how split, divided Human society is along any possible differences, excuses and that we can’t directly connect to one another, nor can we suppress, erase our differences.

From that we could understand that it is not political standing, ideology, nationality that separates us, but the inherently egocentric, selfish, individualistic nature that drives all of us.

Thus there is no political, economic, social or military solution. We need to learn how to overcome, use our inherent nature properly.

So instead of “choosing” even greater animosity, civil or other wars as “solutions”, we would need to learn how to unite, build mutual responsibility, mutually complementing cooperation above and despite the vast, irreconcilable differences, using all-important, collective, mutual goals, purposes to pull us above the differences, crisis.

At the moment we can identify our individual, national and global survival as such an all-important goal. In the globally integrated, fully independent world we evolved into - all of us sitting on the same, sinking boat - either we all learn how to solve our mounting global problems together, or we will all sink and drown.

This should be a strong enough reason to rise above what rejects, separates is and grab what unites, pulls all of us forward!

https://youtu.be/zvvnMhNl9dw

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.