Are we all selfish?

Question from the Internet:

“What are some real-life examples of selfish behaviors that make this world a worse place than it should be?”

In truth, when we start to examine, dissect everything we do, we will find that all our thoughts, actions are selfish — as we simply cannot exist, act in any other way.

I know that many people find this shocking, unacceptable, but we are all born with a 100% self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, subjective, and exploitative nature.

Whatever we think, decide or act is driven by the human ego that is incapable of making calculations for the sake of anything else but the self.

This is neither sinful nor it is evil, this is how Nature’s evolution created us, this is the original internal software we are installed with. And since this human ego has been exponentially growing, intensifying through history, by now we reached an explosive state.

In the fully integrated, interdependent world we also evolved into, the original ego — behaving, working instinctively, without any adjustment — has become a destructive, lethal cancer that kills everything it touches.

We have reached a state when we can’t ignore this, we can’t hide this any longer, the destructive, exploitative ego punches us into our face wherever we look. We still try to locate it in others while justifying ourselves in any given conditions, but even that is waning and more and more people humbly accept that we are driven by the same nature, it only depends on one’s hunger, willingness to sacrifice others, and oneself, it only depends on our conditions how much we actually exploit, use, destroy others and the world around us.

This unpleasant revelation has a silver lining. Finally, we know what the root cause of all our problems is and we also know the solution: we all have to start purposefully, willingly, methodically change. correct, upgrade ourselves, instead of blaming, correcting, changing, or canceling others.

Those who still want to change others are the greatest egoists, refusing to look into the brutally honest mirror, recognizing, accepting the cancerous problem in themselves.

We all need to change, upgrade ourselves, rise above our inherent nature — against the irrepressible, constantly growing personal egos — in order to learn how to harness, channel the ego’s incredible force towards positive, constructive, collective goals, purpose.

Then we will make the world a better place — when we all want to make it better for others selflessly, unconditionally, completely forgetting about ourselves.