How can we learn how to live and work in harmony?

Question from the Internet:

My answer:

In order for humanity to live and work in harmony, we all have to fundamentally change our approach to life and each other.

By default, driven by our inherently and 100% egocentric, individualistic, self-serving, and self-justifying nature, we all work only for our own sake. As a result of our totally myopic and subjective worldview and the totally self-loving and self-serving “pleasure/pain” calculations, we cannot make any calculations, decisions, and actions that are not for our own selfish sake.

Moreover, in the globally integrated and interdependent nature we exist in, with its finite resources and possibilities, with our inherent nature — where we all want for ourselves much more than our natural necessities — we inevitably prosper and succeed at each other’s expense.

Thus, in order to change this self-destructive and cancer-like human paradigm, we need total and fundamental self-correction and self-development. Moreover, since we have to achieve this above and against our inherent nature, we require a unique, purposeful, and practical method.

This method has to give us the ability and tools for harnessing unique developing forces from nature’s system that can assist us in this “mission impossible:” changing our inherent operating software to its opposite without actually suppressing or erasing anything in ourselves.

However, even before we start such an improbable and revolutionary self-development, we need to reach a realistic, irrepressible, and intolerable yearning and need for such a self-change. Only when we already have this yearning and need will we agree to go ahead with the above-described self-revolution.

We can come to such an irrepressible and intolerable yearning and need to change ourselves — instead of blaming, correcting, or destroying others — in two ways.

This need can develop as a result of the constantly worsening and threatening state of human society, where terrible and intolerable suffering will convince us that we have to change ourselves.

There is a more pleasant, faster, conscious, and willing approach by increasing our sensitivity to the negative events and developments that surround us and cause our crisis situations and by humbly and readily accepting that only by changing ourselves can remedy the situation.

If at least a so-called “critical minority” of people start this willing and conscious process, they will be able to guide and pull the rest of the people away from the “path of suffering” towards the “wise path.”