How can we truly change the world for good?

Question from the Internet:

“When will we truly start changing the world for good?”

To change the world for “good,” we would need to define and know what that “good” is, in contrast to what “not good” is.

And here, we immediately start with a basic problem, which is our inherently limited and distorted, 100% subjective, egocentric, and individualistic perception of reality.

What is “good” for me is not necessarily “good” for you. In fact, most of the time, what is “good” for me” is probably bad for others since our whole life is built on ruthless and exclusive competition, where we survive and succeed at the expense of others and nature.

Still, I think more and more people would agree that how the world looks, feels, and behaves today is not “good.” Moreover, many people worry — justly — that if we do not change the way we live and how we interact with each other, we will self-destruct, and humanity will not survive evolution. But instead of the suspected meteor strike that killed the dinosaurs, we will kill ourselves.

This sensation that something is not “good” with the world is already good. Still, it is like having a chronic and threatening illness without the proper diagnosis. We still do not know or do not want to know the root cause of our “human illness,” although we have in front of us the whole “patient history” with the helplessly recurring historical vicious cycles and the worsening crisis situations of our own generation.

And without the proper diagnosis of the root cause, we keep applying useless and superficial “symptomatic treatment” — through politics, economics, social activism, or wars — making everything only worse.

But we are blind and stubborn, as somewhere deep down, we fear the proper diagnosis and what remedy it would lead to.

Through our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature, we are ready to change, manipulate, control, and destroy anything and everything. But we reject and abhor the idea of taking personal responsibility for anything and the idea of changing ourselves.

We would even sacrifice our physical lives rather than admit we were wrong and that we would need to change who we are.

And here we are standing today.

Do we really want to change the world for “good?!”

Then we will have to change the root cause, the single reason why, historically and today, we all live in a harmful and self-destructive way. Then we will have to face the fact that the single root cause is our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature that is behind every ill that unfolds in the world. Then we will have to accept that this selfish and egoistic, and exploitative human nature is operating on all of us and controlling all of us, not only “certain people.”

We will start to change the world for “good” when we all, humbly and willingly, start to change and further develop ourselves.

We still do not know what that “good” is we will reach by this. But we can already know what is “not good,” which is how we exist and behave instinctively, driven by our original human nature. And when we start learning and practicing how to exist and behave against and above our original nature, in the completely opposite direction — for the sake of others and the whole system instead of existing and behaving only for our own selfish sake — then we will arrive to the “good.”