How can we understand and solve our social problems?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readFeb 15, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“What are the things a person should do to fix all the outside problems in the world?”

The answer seems very simple: in order to solve problems in the world, we would need to understand the problems, the cause and effect processes leading to them, their root cause.

By default, we do not have any chance of understanding the world, we can’t even understand ourselves, since we all view reality in an inherently subjective, egocentric way.

I see from the world only what interests me, what I can use to make my usual, 100% introverted, self-serving, and self-justifying calculations. From my inherent viewpoint, the whole world is there only to serve me. If I want to “fix the world”, I want to do that only so it would be better for me, regardless of what happens to others.

Even when I seemingly want to help others, solve their problems it is only because watching them suffer disturbs me, I can’t enjoy my life. But according to our original program, calculations we can’t actually care for others.

It is this inherently 100% self-serving, self-justifying, subjective, and individualistic viewpoint, attitude, behavior that is the root cause of all our problems, since all 8 billion people work, exist this way.

Imagine a body where each and every cell of the body becomes a cancer cell, constantly fighting consuming each other to death. This is humanity.

Thus even to understand the problems we already need to rise above, exit our inherent viewpoint, trying to look at the world objectively, transparently, selflessly. That already requires a unique method, which can facilitate us to achieve a new, second, higher viewpoint, consciousness, perception of reality by ‘escaping ourselves”, attempting to feel, perceive, experience reality through the desires, thoughts, and viewpoints of multiple other people.

By building such unique, mutual, collective consciousness, perception of reality we do not only reach a truthful, objective picture of reality, but with the same process of mutual integration, we also solve all our problems — above and against our egos that caused the problems in the first place.

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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.