Is there an economic or political solution for peace?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readMay 19, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“How do you feel about the economic theories of peace?”

Peace cannot be achieved by politics, economic theories or wars. Peace is a state of mutual integration, mutual complementation above and against our inherently selfish, hateful and exploitative nature, above all our diversity and differences of opinions.

And this we are incapable of as long as we remain on our present, instinctive level of existence.

Peace is something we have to learn and implement. First, we have to recognize that war is the result of our instinctively egocentric, cancer-like nature that drives us towards ruthless competition and to succeed and survive at each other’s expense.

Only when we recognize and accept that the cause of war is within us, in each and every one of us, only then can we start correcting and further developing ourselves — instead of correcting, changing, censoring and destroying others — so we can build the mutually responsible and mutually complementing cooperation that leads to peace — despite our instincts constantly inciting us towards war.

None of our present ideologies or methods will lead to peace, since they are all built by and built for our selfish, egocentric and exploitative nature. Without changing ourselves we will continue with ruthless competition and war until we totally self-destruct!

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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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