A total collapse or new dawn — which one do we choose?!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJul 14, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“Is Europe eventually imploding on itself? Are we eventually seeing the dawn of a new empire?”

Europe is already a failed, chaotic mixture of diverse and mutually distrusting nations, frozen by constantly growing bureaucracy, people living in their self-made prisons, Matrix.

Moreover, Europe has long become a hapless second-fiddle to America, right now sacrificing themselves at the altar of American imperialistic ambitions showcased again in Ukraine.

But America itself is not doing much better, trying to recover from its inevitable decline through war. Sooner or later America’s — and with it, Europe’s — general influence in the world will fade away (we can already how many great and fast developing nations refused to join America’s dictum in relation to the Russian sanctions) and our world will further break apart and new wars and aspirations to conquer will arise.

We are not seeing the dawn of a new empire, we are seeing the collapse of our present civilization which was based on the American-European Western “culture” and colonialism.

Potentially we are heading into a long, volatile and extremely destructive period until perhaps something new emerges for the survivors.

We have another option though.

We can recognize that it does not matter which individuals and nations we think cause conflicts, wars and crisis, but instead we recognize that we are all born with a destructive and cancer-like, inherently egocentric, subjective and exploitative nature.

Then, finally, we can start to correct and further develop ourselves instead of blaming and trying to change, correct or destroy others. Only when at least a critical minority starts this conscious and willing self-correction process can they lead the constantly worsening majority out of that seemingly inevitable decline towards wars and total socio-economic collapse.

We are at unprecedented crossroads in human history, when for the first time we can take our destiny and future development into our hands, provided we humbly recognize and accept that for a better, safer and sustainable future we have to change ourselves first.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by 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.

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