Human potential

Question from the Internet:

“If our limitations are the extent to what we can imagine, then what is our potential?”

I am not sure what it means to “imagine our limitations.” We do not need to imagine anything since we can see our limitations according to the laws of Nature.

We exist in a fully integrated and mutually complementing Natural system. Even if we just look at our biological body, we see that life, health, and survival depend on the seamless mutual integration and mutual cooperation of diverse, seemingly incompatible elements and parts.

Humanity and human beings are part of Nature; we are created by evolution, all of Nature’s laws apply to us as to anything else in the system, and we are still evolving with the system.

Our only limitation comes from our totally misguided perception that we are standalone, independent beings that can dream, wish, plan and do whatever we want. We are mistakingly searching and fighting for individual rights and freedom and try to accumulate and consume everything we can only for ourselves — mostly at the expense of others and Nature.

Especially since the so-called “American culture” permeated everything, this thriving for triumphant individualism has grown exponentially. We think history is a chain of individual decisions and achievements. We keep arguing about “GOATs” rewarding “MVPs” and handing out trophies to the “individual bests” when in truth, nobody can achieve anything on their own.

Our only human limitation is that we believe we can exist and do anything on our own, and we celebrate when individuals triumph over others.

This is the greatest and most destructive misunderstanding of human existence.

And now we have reached a state where this misguided and stubborn individualism is claiming our lives since we are on the brink of global self-destruction. As a result of our individualism, selfish overconsumption and success at the expense of others make us exist and behave like cancer, and this human cancer is in a terminal state.

We will either directly destroy each other and ourselves or will indirectly destroy ourselves since, without unity, selfless, mutually complementing cooperation will not comprehend our mounting global problems, let alone solve them.

We have potential, a huge Human potential, only if we start existing following Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template. And we do not have to imagine or invent anything; we just need to learn and follow Nature’s laws and evolution’s direction.