Being selfish, egotistic is only the start!

Opinion from the Internet of the inherently selfish Human nature:

Never read Freud. . Operating outside of societies’ constraints and values would be an extreme disadvantage in the old days, being excommunicated by society would create immense hardship.

Nowadays, it is very common to achieve gratification at the expense of others’ well-being. This coincides with the relaxed and segregated values of our current society. We don’t have a single society with a single system of values. In fact, it’s believed there are multiple levels of societal values, depending mostly upon your earnings/wealth.

It’s believed that these different societal values are the reason why some can get away with their selfish nature and doing so will only result in appreciation and fellow respect from their peers.

We are innately selfish (born totally dependent), but we also have other innate characteristics (taking care of our fellow citizens, or foreign societies should be a given once we have the abundance to take care of ours) that go well above the negative values it’s believed that Freud put forth or perhaps proves.

And giving to others does not resolve the question of whether we are still selfish. Great pleasure can be derived from giving to the less fortunate, those in need or desperately indigent, but does that justify that it’s done for selfless reasons?

You raise very important questions.

Our inherently selfish desire was revealed, discussed much before Freud by unique, empirical Natural scientists who — an unbroken chain of them from generation to generation — have spent millennia exploring the selfish, egotistic Human nature compared to Nature’s selfless, altruistic system.

And since the selfish ego in us constantly grows from generation to generation Human societies change accordingly. Even 2 generations ago people could still live in marriage for 50–60 years never considering divorce, while today we can’t even sign that “piece of paper” as we can’t tolerate any kind of commitment to others, while instead of the multiple children families used to have we choose not to have any.

Thus we also gradually removed all previous moral, traditional values and celebrate the “zero” society — zero commitment, zero values — we have built for ourselves and our children — which children are now completely lost with no past, present, or future.

You are also right that in order not to consume each other alive we got used to “giving for the sake of receiving”, helping others, giving donations for some reward, recognition, or even for a good feeling. This keeps our societies from exploding, although the strength of even such “selfishly selfless” acts is getting less and less obvious as we all retreat into our isolation, ruthless, exclusive competition, success at the expense of others.

Still, this is all purposeful and necessary.

Until we truly become sick of the selfish ego, until we truly recognize and feel that we are like cancer towards each other and Nature and these we can self-destruct any moment, we will not accept the need to change ourselves.

And without such overwhelming need, we can’t acquire Nature’s truly selfless, altruistic qualities above and against our inherently selfish, egotistic ones.

And without such unparalleled, unprecedented Human uniquely Human duality we can’t reach, fulfill our special, evolutionary Human role in evolution: to become Nature’s only conscious, independent still integrated “insider observers”, partners!