Hoarding and accumulating resources beyond our needs comes from our inherent nature

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readOct 31, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“How does hoarding contribute to hardships in human society, and how can this be addressed to bring about abundance?”

Hoarding, accumulating resources for ourselves beyond our natural needs, and excessive overconsumption is all symptoms of our inherently self-serving, egocentric, subjective and exploitative nature.

We all feel like independent, standalone beings that have to fight and compete for survival and success against others. We lack the instinctive sense of belonging and mutual responsibility that is prevalent in nature. This is why we feel ourselves in a hostile world where we have to fight and compete for everything while gaining at the expense of others.

If we want to overcome this instinctive and increasingly destructive behaviour, we will need to use a special, practical and purposeful educational method. This method can teach us and actually make us viscerally feel how integrated and interdependent we truly are.

As a result, we can let go of the instinctive distrust and hostility and start building a different human society that is based on Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system. Then while we become more and more similar to Nature and start trusting each other, we also return to exist within the optimal parameters of true natural necessities and available resources.

This is when we will all share Nature’s full abundance we could not even access before due to our incompatibility with Nature.

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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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