About free society and uniformity…

Question from the Internet:

“To what extent is uniformity problematical in a free society?”

First of all, we do not exist in a “free society”. Most of the time, we understand “freedom” as if we were standalone, independent beings that can think, plan and do whatever they like.

But this is impossible.

Human society is a totally interconnected and interdependent construct. And today, this mutual integration and interdependence have reached global proportions. This is not something we developed or invented, and it is not something we can escape from. Nature’s strict laws govern the general balance and homeostasis that life depends on, determining that the whole Natural system is closed, mutually integrated and interdependent.

Humanity, as one of Nature’s species, as an integral part of Nature, cannot escape mutual integration and interdependence since we cannot exist against Nature’s laws.

So it does not matter what we dream about, what we philosophize about or what our inherent ego wants. We are mutually integrated and interdependent parts of a single, living system. Thus we do not have any individual freedom.

This does not mean uniformity. It is specifically our diversity and the vast differences between us that enable such a living system to exist, thrive, grow and develop. The only thing that is missing is to learn how we can rebuild human society based on nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system, so human society becomes a life-creating and life-nurturing system like Nature itself.

Moreover, when we achieve this and also develop a unique, collective consciousness and composite, collective perception of reality, we will start experiencing and perceiving life above and beyond any subjective, individualistic and egocentric limitations like time, space or motion.

That will be true and actual freedom!