How can we “fix” the world?

Question from the Internet:

“The world feels crazy right now. What positive actions could fix it?”

I agree with you that the world looks and feels crazy and that we do not feel much confidence about the future.

In order to find any positive actions or true solutions to fix our problems, first of all, we would need to identify the root cause of our problems. Our present “solutions” make everything worse because we only see and treat the symptoms but not the actual disease.

It is sort of understandable since even if we already start to suspect what the root cause, the real problem is, we instinctively want to turn away and ignore it — since the problem is deep within us, we are the problem.

Everything that has ever happened to humanity, everything we have ever built, developed or invented, is the product of our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic and exploitative nature. All the ideologies, philosophies and faith systems that gave and still give the foundations for human society are driven by selfish, destructive and self-destructive intentions we are mostly unaware of.

This recognition of the root cause of all the problems within us is very unpleasant and difficult since our all-powerful ego justifies itself in any given condition and situation. This either we need to reach such crazy and intolerable suffering that even the ego yields since it feels imminent self-destruction, or we need a very special, purposeful and practical method that can help us provoke, detect and control the ego without the need to go through extreme physical and mental suffering.

But like in medicine, without establishing the right diagnosis, without revealing the single root cause of all the problems, all “solutions” and methods backfire and plunge us even deeper into crisis and suffering. We will continue blaming, correcting, censoring and destroying each other and the world around us.

This is why we urgently need to reveal and accept the root cause of the human disease within ourselves, so we can all also develop a real desire and need to correct, change and further develop ourselves.