America and Humanity is built as a business — and now the business is collapsing

Zsolt Hermann
3 min readMay 27, 2020

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America has been built as a successful business venture

These days many people try to simplify the question of remaining in quarantine to save life or opening the economy to save businesses into a black and white question as if protecting life would contradict keeping the economy alive. This is not true, especially not in the US.

I remember the movie, “Killing them softly”, where at the end the character played by Brad Pitt declares that America is not a nation, but it is a business. And this is true, not in a negative way, but historically.

America was established by mostly European settlers who swarmed their in their hope to build a better life than they had in Europe and they truly believed in classical, raw capitalism, in the American dream, that I can have everything I ever want while you can have everything you ever want and we do not touch each other’s profit, properties and we grow and succeed infinitely.

And whatever “patriotism” there was and it is a nice facade for all the independent business ventures America has been building for centuries. Ad this sense of never stopping profit and expansion just got even stronger after the 2nd World War and even more after the Cold War as there has always been only one victor in whatever happened since: America.

The US was never about people but about successful business and the whole world wanted to copy this.

Business turning into the exploitation of others

The problem is that our inherent nature — for all of us, not only for Americans — is egocentric, individualistic, and exploitative to such an extent, that after a while we also want what others have, we cannot be happy with only with what we have.

Thus America — and the rest of the world — has become a “dream” for a few at the expense of all the others. Just like in Europe the founding fathers escaped, America also became ruled by “aristocracy". And now, this exploitation, modern slavery — nicely wrapped into a modern consumer society — has exhausted itself, moreover turned cancer-like as we evolved into a fully integrated and interdependent global world.

What we need to understand is that nobody is guilty, there is no point in blaming people, parties, movements as this whole process was fueled by our blind instincts.

Those who still lead America and the world, who still benefit from the present system do not understand what has happened. They still think that there is a solution, there are other tricks they can use to continue squeezing profit out of the system, even if people die. They know no other way of life.

None of us do.

We need to rebuild Humanity (even America) based on Nature’s integral template

This is why we need a unique, purposeful and practical educational program to learn what another way of life is possible, one that is not built on, by our inherently egoistic, greedy, individualistic nature, but one that is built on Nature’s perfect template.

We need to understand once and for all, that since we were born from Nature, we are still integral parts of Nature, we evolve within Nature — we have to learn and keep Nature’s laws of integration, sustaining the balance and homeostasis life depends on.

Then we will be able to build a society that is bull for Human beings, who learn how to properly interconnect, cooperate. then we will have a different governing, economic, and social system that will be sustainable, safer, peaceful, and fair.

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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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