Human nature

Question from the Internet:

“What do you think is human nature and are humans inherently good or bad?”

Instead of my own opinion, I tell you what unique, empirical natural scientists — who have been studying human nature for millennia — are teaching.

They say, that inherently we are all 100% self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic, and we all exist and act only for our own sake.

This inherent human nature explains the helplessly recurring vicious cycles of history and also why our own civilization is stumbling from crisis to crisis and sleepwalks towards a global catastrophe.

But these unique scientists also explain that this does not mean that we are “evil” or “sinful”. After all, we did not have any free choice about the human nature evolution created us with. We did not choose to be 100% egocentric, subjective, and individualistic. With our given nature we can only exist the way we do, through ruthless competition, trying to succeed at each other’s expense while we overuse and overconsume everything for our own sake.

Moreover, nature installed this selfish and exploitative human nature in us with a purpose. It is this insatiable and petulant human nature that drove our incredible social, cultural, and technological development so far. And now, when we start to recognize the destructive forces and intentions within us, we also have the ability — and obligation — to start purposefully and consciously changing and further developing ourselves.

Our actual free choice and our truly Human development start now. It is when we recognized and accepted that by blindly following our inherent nature we will surely self-destruct, and we also developed — together by mutual support — a desire and a true need to change and improve ourselves, that we start to become the “Human beings” that nature’s evolution expects us to become.

There is nothing “good or evil” in nature’s system. Everything is purposeful and exactly how it should be. Human beings are the only parts of this vast natural Universe, that can actually recognize and consciously arrange all the elements of nature’s system — starting with ourselves — so the system could work, exist, and develop in the most optimal manner.

Reaching our perfect and predetermined evolutionary state and role would be impossible without first being “seemingly bad” or against nature’s harmonious and mutually integrated system.

It is specifically by consciously and purposefully changing and developing ourselves from the initially opposite state to the most optimal state do we gain a full understanding and control over the whole system, “seeing it from one extreme to the other”, seeing and feeling this crucially important contrast as a result of our own transformation.