How can we build and maintain a peaceful environment?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readJan 3, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“What is the most important thing in a peaceful environment?”

The most important thing in a peaceful environment is understanding how peace can be created and sustained.

Peace is an “unnatural” state for human beings. We are born for conflicts. arguments, ruthless competition, and war since we are all 100% egocentric, self-serving, self-justifying, and individualistic.

This is simply how we are born, and these tendencies have been exponentially growing and intensifying in us through millennia. We compare ourselves to others all the time and define ourselves above and against others. Knowingly or unknowingly, we survive and succeed at each other’s expense.

This is why creating and sustaining a peaceful environment requires deep knowledge and acceptance of our inherent nature, so above and against our instinctive behavior, we could build sustainable, positive and constructive, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing connections and cooperation.

This requires a special method and willingness and commitment from all who want to live in a peaceful environment which we have to rebuild and strengthen all the time; since we cannot suppress or erase our inherent nature, we have to build and keep peace above it and against it all the time.

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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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