How can we build an equitable human society:

Question from the Internet:

“What could be done to establish a more equitable society?”

We have only one example or template we can build a liveable, equitable, and sustainable human society on; it is nature’s integrated living systems.

And while it is not easy to take examples from nature in general, and our inherently egocentric, subjective, self-serving, and self-justifying perception and consciousness distorts what we see and detect, when we look at how our own biological body functions, we can see exactly how mutually integrated and healthily surviving natural systems survive and develop.

In these natural, integrated, and living systems, each and every comprising element exists for the sake of the whole. Each cell and organ in our body makes calculations and functions in order to sustain and safeguard the general balance and homeostasis that life and optimal development depends on.

For each cell and organ, this calculation for the well-being of the whole overrides any individual or selfish calculations.

The inherently egocentric, subjective, and individualistic human beings behave and exist in the opposite way. We live only for ourselves; we excessively accumulate and consume everything we can for ourselves. Our activities, the structure of society, are characterized by ruthless and exclusive competition, where we survive and succeed at each other’s expense.

Thus if we want to build a better, safer, more peaceful, and surviving human society, where each and every person finds their most optimal, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing role and function, we will have to learn from nature how to exist — above and against our inherent nature.

This requires a unique, purposeful, and practical educational method and sensitive and willing people who are ready to start this unprecedented self-changing and self-developing process before others.

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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.