How to sense our absolute, mutual responsibility in the world?

Question from the Internet:

“How do we change the perspective of people that everything should be free but don’t want to work for or pay for free things?”

We basically need to change our “perception of reality”.

By default, we feel as if we were all standalone, independent beings that can do whatever they want, each person demanding “justice and rights” while trying to get along with maximum selfish profit and minimum effort.

This either leads to the state you described, where people demand full care from society while they do nothing, or it leads to the situation where people make efforts, work hard and want to amass all the profit possible while exploiting others.

This will change only when we all start to understand and “viscerally feel” that we are actually like individual cells of the same, mutually integrated, and responsible living organism.

We have to come to feel in a very realistic, “cut-throat” way that my life depends on the life of everyone else if I do not fulfil my responsibility towards the whole collective to my maximum ability while only taking for myself what I truly need and deserve, I cause harm to the whole system like cancer, destroying everything and everyone, including myself.

This understanding and feeling have to become so direct and sharp that none of us would ever think about behaving either as deserving the whole support of society without making any effort on our part or deserving all the profit while others suffer and have nothing because I work hard, I get everything I want, and I do not care what happens to others.

This very sharp and tangible feeling can come around in two different ways. As our artificial, selfish and hedonistic society — where everybody only thinks and cares about themselves while succeeding at the expense of others — is falling apart, we will sink ever-deeper into crisis and wars and socioeconomic problems while natural disasters also ravage us. This way, intolerable suffering will awaken us to the feeling of absolute interdependence and the need to build a Nature-like, mutually integrated society.

On the other hand, we have the unique, conscious ability to recognize the need for mutual responsibility and mutually complementing cooperation based on Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template before suffering forces us — with the help of a special, purposeful and practical educational method.