How can we make the world a better place?

Question from the Internet:

“Will the world ever be a better place to live again?”

The world cannot become good or better again unless we learn and accept what “good” actually means.

So far, we have been defining “good” according to our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, subjective and exploitative nature.

Accordingly, “good” is a state that gives us pleasures, and we do not feel pain, where we can consume and accumulate for ourselves whatever we want. And it has been even better if we succeeded and gained at the expense of others while we never cared about our negative effect on Nature.

As a result, we now find ourselves in a deepening and seemingly unsolvable crisis that affects all human activities while we arrive at the brink of seemingly inevitable self-destruction.

We urgently need to understand that we do not exist in a human bubble outside of or above Nature. We cannot simply continue to look at “good/bad” according to whether it is “sweet or bitter” for ourselves.

We exist in and are integral parts of Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system, where strict and unforgiving laws govern the fragile balance and homeostasis that life depends on. In this Natural system, “good” is whatever facilitates and sustains that balance, while bad is everything that disrupts that general balance and jeopardizes life.

Only when we willingly and consciously start adapting ourselves to Nature’s laws and mutual integration and swap our selfish “sweet/bitter” for nature’s definitions of “good/bad” will we make our lives better and facilitate our collective human survival in Nature.