Human purpose

Zsolt Hermann
3 min readApr 15, 2023

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An opinion from the Internet:

“When you say that our present human system is morally indefensible and that we have to completely rebuild on different values and goals, why do you not simply say, “We will build a utopia?” A unique educational method? What you suggest is the forced reprograming of a human against most of his natural instincts. I think you lust after the destruction of what there is, and when you have participated in its destruction, you will be the first to regret it. Consider this from E M Cioran, “We invoke progress less and less and mutation more and more, and all that we allege to illustrate the latter’s advantage is merely one symptom after another of an unrivaled catastrophe.””

Thank you for your response.

Your concerns are just, but unfounded.

I am not suggesting to build a utopia. I am suggesting to learn what natural evolution expects from us and then implement it before evolution will force us do achieve it regardless, but as a result of suffering.

I am not suggesting to destroy what there is, it is already being destroyed as we speak. We can stubbornly ignore it or pretend as if things were all right, but more and more people realize that we are on the brink of self-destruction, although most of them do not know why and what to do against it.

Finally, the educational method I am studying and practicing does not do anything forcefully, against people’s will. It is open to those who are already sensitive and willing, who already understand that in order to change the world for the better and survive we need to change and further develop ourselves first.

We already know from the overwhelming historical and contemporary experience that we are all born with an inherently and 100% self-serving, self-justifying, subjective and individualistic worldview and internal program. We can also see and feel that we all inevitably try succeeding and surviving at each other’s expense. Even when we seemingly cooperate or “love” others, we do so in order to fulfill ourselves and get some reward as a result of our actions. If you do not agree, please bring evidence of the contrary.

Whether we agree or not, whether we acknowledge or nlot, we are born from and still exist in nature’s finely balanced and mutually complementing and mutually integrated system. In this system – with our iherent nature – we exist and behave like cancer. And as a result, we are self-destructing on multiple fronts.

Only when we willingly and consciously change and further develop ourselves, so we become similar to and integrated into nature can we solve our mounting problems and survive. It is actually very simple to see and accept. What is difficult is the practical implementation, since – as you also said – we have to go against our inherent nature.

And this is only something human beings are capable of, only humans can develop and “upgrade” themselves in nature’s system. And it is actually this ability of conscious and purposeful self-development and self-upgrade that will make us Human. At this stage, we are not Human. We are blind and instinctive animals that destroy themselves and nature.

When we become Humans – by our own intentions, actions and efforts – then we fulfill our Human purpose in evolution.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by 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.

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