Crisis and Chance

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readNov 26, 2020

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Question from the Internet:

“What two words best represent the situation we humans are in right now?”

Crisis and Chance.

Humanity is in a very deep, existential crisis, on the verge of self-destruction.

This self-destruction could be triggered by multiple causes (economic meltdown, social inequality, unemployment, racism leading to riots, revolutions; wars as leaders will have no other options due to the pressure in their countries so they try uniting their nations by hate against others; climate change, pollution making a large part of Earth uninhabitable; water, food shortage; even worse pandemics, plagues due to antibiotics overuse; etc) in multiple locations.

On the other hand, after the millennia-long, helplessly recurring vicious historic cycles, finally, more and more people started to grasp, understand why we can’t build fair, equal, peaceful, and sustainable Human societies. The pandemic very sharply shows that while we live in a fully integrated and interdependent, Natural world, Human beings live, operate in a self-serving, individualistic, egotistic way, basically behaving like cancer in Nature’s body where Humanity is one of the organs.

So for the first time in Human history, we know what we need to do in order to acquire a truly working problem-solving ability, and how we could safeguard our collective survival.

If we are all but individual cells of the same organ, body, if we are all sitting on the same global boat, we can either survive or perish together.

In this integral, global world there are no individual, national problems or solutions. We have shown to ourselves in the last few months more obviously than ever, that by acting selfishly, only for our own sake, while succeeding, surviving at the expense of others we dig our own graves — literally.

There are already enough people with the sensitivity, wisdom to see this, they are ready for change — to change themselves, to awaken a different, “Nature-like” selfless, and altruistic program in themselves. They know that changing through political, economic, social, or military means is futile, only making things worse.

Only by changing ourselves — instead of wanting to change others — can we change the world, and we have the necessary, unique, purposeful, and highly practical educational, scientific method to use, which method is based on Nature’s laws, template.

Thus the present crisis, the possibility of very real and close self-destruction, the amassed experience, and real-life data give us a chance to snap out of the vicious, historic cycles and to start building a completely new, qualitatively much higher Human system together.

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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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