At this stage, we do not even act properly out of necessity!

Question from the Internet:

“The proverb “necessity is the mother of invention” says that when a need becomes imperative, you’re forced to find a way to achieve that need. How did this proverb come into play for you or someone you know during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic?”

It seems to me, that this proverb has not come into play when we look at humanity in general.

Despite seeing, feeling the necessity to build mutually responsible, mutually complementing cooperation, to care for others as much as we care for ourselves in order to stop a very real global problem, we still continue living, acting according to our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and exploitative ways.

We create vaccines — most of all for ourselves or for profit -, then we compete and lie about the vaccines, we seel less fortunate nations the less effective or even expired vaccines,m when it comes to staying put or wearing masks we cry about personal freedom, individual rights, and when it seems we at least partially overcame the virus we throw away any logic and reason and like helpless addicts try to rush back to our “previous normal”, blindly at all cost chasing empty pleasures and fulfillments — only for ourselves.

It seems humanity needs a harsher, more threatening blow to bring that proverb into action. And that would still be animalistic, blind development unique scientists call the “path of suffering”.

We could of course use our unique, human intellect that is capable of critical self-assessment, initiating the necessary self-changes leading to building the crucially necessary global, mutually responsible, mutually complementing interconnections, cooperation problem-solving and our collective survival depends on.