It is not Covid-19 that is the problem

What is the real problem?

I hope I am not confusing the matter too much, I still do not think Covid-19 itself is a problem. The problem is how we related to it, how we responded to it, and in general how we usually relate to any other global issues that are not less threatening than the pandemic.

After all, Covid-19 is not the first or last pandemic, plague that will erupt — not mention how we primed, exposed ourselves unnecessarily for much worse plagues as a result of our antibiotic overuse.

Apart from this problem we have the worsening climate change — regardless of how much it is caused directly by Human activity — increasing water shortage, pollution, social inequality, geopolitical hotspots, increasing depression, substance abuse, mental health issues, family breakdown…

And as we reacted to the pandemic — in a woefully inadequate, insufficient, uncoordinated, individualistic, and nationalistic way, trying to survive at each other’s expense — instead of finding solutions we make all our problems much worse than they should be.

Locked into a Global, Integral system so we need to learn how to live in it

We will fall ever deeper into crisis and sleepwalk towards a mutually guaranteed self-destruction unless we manage to understand that we have evolved into a globally integrated and fully interdependent world. And as such our problem-solving ability and survival will depend on how much we become capable of rising above our hormonal instincts, egoism, and individuality, so we build mutually responsible and mutually complementing connections, cooperation that will be the new basis of our development and collective survival.

For this, we need a unique, purposeful and practical educational method which can teach us how to harness, aim our inherent egos — that are irrepressible, indestructible — towards positive, constructive, mutual goals, purposes.

Then neither Covid-19 nor other, threatening calamities will become problems as we will easily solve or even prevent them effortlessly — together.