Global response to the pandemic

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readAug 18, 2021

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Question from the Internet:

“Why did the United Nations and the WHO failed to stop the pandemic?”

I am not sure they could have stopped the pandemic, but they surely could have helped a better organized, coordinated response to it.

But they can’t as they are “global” organizations only in name, and in truth, they are just puppet, political constructs to serve certain selfish interests as everything else we ever set up.

This is nobody’s fault, we simply cannot act in any other way.

We can clearly see, that even after almost 2 years of being in this constantly renewing, recurring pandemic we still act in the same, stubborn, totally selfish, egotistic, individualistic, and nationalistic way as we always do as this is how we are programmed.

We keep making beautiful speeches about the global village, about the need for coordinated efforts for the pandemic or climate change, and all the other global problems that threaten us. But when it comes to actions we are simply incapable of rising above the instinctive self-interest so we would be able to make calculations for the benefit of the whole collective.

We find ourselves in an explosive, destructive paradox between our globally integrated, interdependent evolutionary conditions and our inherently selfish, egoistic, exploitative nature.

We have become like cancer in this global, integral world.

And since our Natural, evolutionary conditions won’t change, if we want to solve our problems, if we want to survive we will have to change ourselves and how we relate, connect to each other. We need a very special method that can not only help us understand but can make us also tangibly feel our total interdependence in order to show us that it is in our best, selfish interest to start looking at humanity as a single, living organism that can survive only together “as one man with one heart”.

We need this unique method as we would need to build the crucially important, mutually responsible and mutually complementing connections above and against our inherent nature that we cannot suppress or erase.

None of it can be achieved through the inadequate, fake “global” organizations we have today. First, we have to change, upgrade ourselves and then we will be able to build the necessary system that can guide our global response, solutions.

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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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