Freedom to interconnect and serve one another

Question from the Internet:

“Which is more important? Public health or personal freedom? I guess I’m a Star Trek buff and agree when Spock says, “Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” Captain Kirk answers, “Or the one.””

This is a very important question for our generation, although a question that is born out of our misunderstanding about our life and the system we exist in.

We keep asking about, fighting for “personal, individual freedom” as this is how we are wired, brought up and educated. But in truth, we have “no right” for personal, individual freedom at all!

We are born from Nature’s fully integrated and interdependent system, we are all parts of a single species, we are still integral parts of Nature where we are obligated to play our predetermined “cogwheel” role, or play our part as a single cell in a vast organism.

But since we have been programmed all through to be uniquely individualistic, as we have been succeeding, surviving at each other’s expense for millennia — seemingly without negative consequences — we are still horrified at the idea of being dependent on each other and having absolute, full, mutual responsibility towards one another.

Then comes the virus and shoves this interdependence and mutual responsibility down our throat. It is understandable why people, especially in Western societies, especially in the US rebel against this. After all, the only thing they have heard through their lives that they are all unique, independent, free and they can do whatever they want!

And anything that has to do with “interconnections”, “mutuality” has been labeled as “communistic” which of course is the work of the devil.

Well, we will have to revise all that! Existence in a fully integrated and interdependent world means that my own health, survival, prosperity is intimately intertwined with the health, survival, and prosperity of the whole collective — which in our times means the whole, global world.

And the only freedom we need to acquire in order to implement what Nature’s laws expect from us is liberating ourselves from our misguided, artificial, individualistic, self-serving, self-justifying, and subjective viewpoint. Then we will be able to build the crucially necessary, mutually responsible and mutually complementing interconnections our problem-solving ability and survival depends on.

And when we secured this we will gradually understand and feel that being independent of our own self, and thus being able to freely “roam the Universe” through the desires, needs, and viewpoints of others is the greatest possible freedom in reality!