Individuality and Social Responsibility

Question from the Internet:

“How can we reconcile the idea of individual freedom with the notion of social responsibility, and what role does society play in shaping our moral values?”

As more and more people recognize it, we exist in a fully integrated and interdependent world that encompasses the whole globe.

And this globally integrated and interdependent humanity is also an integral part of “global and integral” nature, that also goes beyond the planet, encompassing the whole Universe.

Thus the question arises: if we are all, fully interconnected and integral parts of such a fully integrated and interdependent cosmic system, what individual freedom could we have? And if we do not have individual freedom, why were we given the sense of our individuality?

Unique, empirical natural scientists — who have been studying human nature in the context of nature’s system for millennia — explain, that human beings are very special in nature’s system.

While all other parts of the natural system — or the Universe — are instinctively and automatically integrated into the system and fulfill their predetermined role and function without any consciousness, human beings were given unique freedom.

Since we are born with a sense of independent individuality and a feeling that we can exist outside and even nature’s system, seemingly doing whatever we want, according to our own, inherently egocentric, subjective, and individualistic calculations, we acquire an unparalleled independent consciousness and an “outsider” viewpoint of the system.

It is true, that our inherent viewpoint and our sense of independence and individuality are false, it is an illusion. But this false viewpoint and illusory independence and individuality give us the necessary starting point, from which we can achieve our unprecedented and unique Human role and purpose in nature.

Today we can see very clearly, that unless we build a mutually responsible and mutually complementing integration and cooperation between us — on a global scale — we won’t even comprehend the mounting global problems that threaten our existence, let alone find solutions for them. This survival need will force us together, either proactively, or as a result of increasing and intolerable suffering.

But beyond the “simple”, physical survival need, there is a much higher reason why we need to learn how to mutually integrate and become like healthy cells in a single living organism — above and against our inherent and illusory independence and individuality.

From the unique contrast gained between our false and illusory independence, individuality, and the consciously achieved, nature-like mutual integration, we will gain an unprecedented and total understanding and attainment of nature’s system.

We will be able to assess and recognize the system from within the vast contrast, we will see and feel all the cause-and-effect processes that determine and govern everything in the natural system, including our own lives.

As a result of this “educational process”, we will come to a very realistic and tangible sensation as if we ourselves designed and operated the whole system. We will dissolve into the system, while we incorporate the whole system within us. We will “viscerally” feel that the whole system is a single living organism and that human beings — through the collective, mutually integrated consciousness we build — is the conscious mind and intellect of this system.

This is when any sense or need for independent individuality disappears as it will not make any sense any longer.

This is a very realistic and “down to earth” developmental process we have to start today.

Actually, the process has already started, since evolution is pushing us towards the above state with or without our consent. Our true free choice is about agreeing to participate in this process willingly and proactively or not.

Obviously, not all 8 billion people will agree to participate in this process all at once. But even if a so-called critical minority agrees and starts working towards the above-mentioned nature-like mutual integration, that can already pull humanity away from the “path of suffering” towards a faster and more pleasant, conscious path of development.

These pioneers will build a unique environment or society, where they will create and sustain a certain “mother’s womb” through their mutual connection where each participant can most optimally develop towards our Human purpose, while each individual will also be a responsible and active part of the “mother’s womb” for the sake of others. Thus, while on one hand society shapes us and makes us its product, we can also positively influence and shape society so it can create the best possible “product”: the Human being according to nature’s definition and expectation.