Individual responsibility in a global world

Question from the Internet:

“What is the role of individual responsibility in addressing modern problems?”

We evolved into a globally integrated and fully interdependent world. Our “modern” world is a global and integral world.

Thus all our problems are global and integral, affecting everybody in the farthest parts of the planet. We can see how seemingly local wars or events have implications for everybody, and then we are also facing obviously global problems through the pandemic, climate change, and socioeconomic problems.

Thus today each and every individual has 100% mutual responsibility toward everybody else. Whether we agree or not, like it or not, we are totally and irrevocably responsible for everybody and everything — since we are also integral parts of Nature’s system.

This total mutual responsibility is against our inherent nature.

By default, I care only about my own existence and survival, about my own success, and I even enjoy it when I succeed at the expense of others, and I have more than them.

This is why we need a special, purposeful, and highly practical educational method, so we can start feeling and implementing our absolute mutual responsibility towards each other above and against our instinctive nature and behavior.

This special education has to help us understand, moreover, viscerally feel how mutually integrated and interdependent we are.

Only when we tangibly feel without any doubts that we are all but individual cells of the same living organism and that our individual lives are irrevocably intertwined with the life of everything and everybody else can we implement our individual responsibility towards others.

After all, when I feel that those “others” are actually my own integral parts and we either exist or die together, I have no problem anymore to “love and care for others as I love and care myself.”