Is socializing a want or a need?

Question from the Internet:

“Is socializing a want or a need?”

We could say that it is both.

Most people want and like to socialize with people we like, we like to go to events that involves many people doing something together. Then there is the teamwork effect, since many things can be achieved faster and more effectively when we work as a team. Even idolized and overpaid athletes understand this.

On the other hand, as we started to realize in our times more and more, “socializing”, doing things together, building mutually responsible and mutually complementing cooperation is an actual, survival need. In nature’s fully integrated and interdependent system, which is now forcing on us a globally interconnected and totally interdependent world, we will not even comprehend our mounting global challenges, let alone find true and working solutions for them, without “socializing” – doing everything mutually together.

The problem is that this “need to socialize” is against our inherently egocentric, subjective and individualistic nature. When we want to socialize, we do so as it feels pleasant, joyful and rewarding for us. But the actual and pressing need to “socialize” and mutually cooperate is most of the time against our egocentyric, subjective and individualistic thinking and expectations.

This is why we need a unique, purposeful and highly practical method, that can not only help us understand but make us actually and viscerally feel that we are so inevitably and irrevocably interdependent – by the laws of nature – that it is in our best interest to build that mutually responsible and mutually complementing interconnections and cooperation our survival depends on.