How is it possible to change the world?
Question from the Internet:
“What would you use to change the world for the better?”
We already know from historic examples that we can’t change anything in a true, sustainable fashion through coercion, through misleading propaganda, or by scaring people into changes.
We also know — especially from present-day examples — that we can’t successfully change the world through the methods of politics, economy, social changes, or military action.
In order to successfully change the world, we would need to change the root cause, the single reason why we keep stumbling from one vicious historic cycle to another, from one crisis to another.
And this single reason is our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, subjective, individualistic, and exploitative nature. It is this nature in us that drives us towards excessive overconsumption, accumulation of resources for ourselves, towards ruthless competition, always succeeding at the expense of others and Nature.
Without recognizing, addressing, correcting the “raw, beta software” in us Nature’s evolution installed us with, we will continue our stubborn, futile attempts of trying to change the world, others around us while we continue to behave like cancer.
And based on all the above, the only means we have to change the world is the right, purposeful, and highly practical educational method — built based on nature’s laws that sustain the general balance and homeostasis life depends on. With the help of this education we can, first of all, recognize the problem within us and then start gradually changing, upgrading ourselves so we can harness, channel the ego’s irrepressible, awesome power towards positive, constructive, collective goals, purpose.
Only human beings have the unique ability to recognize the need to change themselves in order to facilitate their positive, successful continuing evolution, taking their development into their own hands. This is why Nature gave us the seemingly destructive Human ego and the unique Human intellect that — by learning Nature’s examples — can control, use the ego positively, constructively in harmony with others and Nature.