Harnessing the strongest force in reality

Question from the Internet:

“What is the ONE big issue of modern times?”

The single issue of our modern times, the root cause of all our mounting, increasingly threatening problems is the maximally grown, maximum intensity human ego.

It is this ego that has been exponentially growing all through history, driving all our helplessly recurring, vicious historic cycles, and driving today’s reckless, excessive overconsumption, ruthless competition and survival, success at the expense of others and Nature.

And while the human ego — our matter, driving force — cannot be suppressed or erased, we have the ability to learn how to harness, channel its awesome power towards positive, constructive, mutually beneficial, collective goals, purpose.

Then by rebuilding Human interconnections, the fabric of society based on Nature’s fully integrated, interdependent template, we can turn the ego from a cancer-like destructive force to Nature’s strongest, life-giving, life-sustaining, constructive force, energy.

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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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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.