Are human beings wicked?
Question from the Internet:
“What makes some people wicked?”
Our inherent nature — for each and every one of us — is 100% self-centred, self-serving and self-justifying. We all make calculations only for our own sake, constantly thinking about how to obtain more, greater and higher pleasures for ourselves while escaping personal pain and suffering at all costs.
And this instinctive operating software inevitably pitches us against others, especially since we evolved into a globally integrated and fully interdependent world, where everything we take for ourselves above our necessities is necessarily taken from others in Nature’s closed system.
This is not “wicked” and it is not a sin, we are programmed like this by Natural evolution. And it is our insatiable desire for more that drove human development way beyond the development of any other animals, who remained virtually unchanged for millions of years while we progressively developed within a few thousand years.
On the other hand, especially now in the global and integral world, this insatiable and selfish desire that drives us also became destructive like the “aspiration of cancer” to consume everything for itself.
So we have reached a state where we have to recognize that by blindly following our inherent nature we will inevitably self-destruct. And as a result of this recognition, we have to initiate a unique self-developmental, self-upgrade process above and against our inherent instincts.