All we need is a “User’s Guide”!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readAug 12, 2020

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Question from the Internet:

What would it be like if everyone on the planet all went to school, worked, and lived together in one huge complex with enough food and water for 1500 years?

Wait a minute, we are actually all living in a huge complex with enough water and food for much more than 1500 years, and in this complex we all go to school and work, live together!

This huge complex is called “Earth”, a closed, fully integrated and interdependent Natural system each and every Human being is an integral part of.

There is only one problem, we are not aware of this!

We all think that we exist separately, independent of each other and outside of Nature. We all think we have true, personal freedom of choices, decisions and we can whatever we want or like, regardless of the consequences with impunity.

As the increasing, seemingly unsolvable global crisis — which has been going on for decades, affecting all levels of Human activity — and the pandemic shows, we are locked into this “huge complex”, but we try to ignore, fight, reject this fact as we all want to preserve our inherently cancer-like “freedom” — freedom to self-destruct!

We also think we do not have enough resources and we have to “cull” Humanity as there are too many people — while we are all overconsuming, we all exploit each other at any given opportunity, we accumulate everything for ourselves at each other’s expense.

If we learned how to scale down to a normal lifestyle — within the optimal parameters of natural necessities and available resources — if we learned to mutually trust each other and organize fair, equal distribution — according to each person’s actual conditions, abilities and their mutually responsible and mutually complementing contribution to society — then this “huge complex” called Earth could house a much greater amount of people than we have today.

Moreover, if we established such a mutually integrated and cooperating society, we would become integrated into Nature as well. As a result, we could fully understand Nature’s laws and its developmental plan with our own role in it. As a result, we could “matter of factly” know what our true necessities are, how many children is healthy and desirable, and we would follow Nature’s laws out of attaining them instead of coercion, terror, oppression according to some political ideology, Human philosophy as we tried before or try today.

So we do not need to dream about this “huge complex” that can nurture us all, we already live in it. All we need to do is learn how to live in it, finding and studying the “User’s Guide”, a proper, purposeful and practical educational method that is open and available for us all.

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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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