It is upon us not to repeat history’s vicious, self-destructive cycles in our generation!

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readSep 17, 2020

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Question from the Internet:

“In what ways does history repeat itself?”

So far Human development has been a blind, instinctive process with our inherently self-serving, self-justifying ego driving us.

Each new civilization is built upon a new, ideal ideology, system, that we think can provide a reasonably fair, sustainable, equal existence for all people, after we have realized millennia ago that we have to live a social life with some form of interconnection with each other.

But then the original idea, system becomes gradually distorted, corrupted by the same ego - which we tried to control, harness with the laws, structures of society - until the civilization becomes unsustainable and self-destructs.

Then we start building again on the ruins and experience of the fallen civilization, until we start repeating the same mistakes, crimes - regardless of the “ism”, governing, economic our social system we use, regardless of who the dominant powers are - until an inevitable explosion.

Today we are at our own “civilization ending” finish strait, waiting for our own “civilization-ending explosion”, almost making a carbon copy of the events of the 1930s-40s.

It is upon us, on this generation to use the overwhelming historic experience - and the very real and present danger of potential, collective self-destruction if we allow things to run their usual course - to proactively, consciously shift from the original blind, instinctive development to an unprecedented, conscious, purposeful progress above and against our inherent program, inclination and instincts.

https://youtu.be/s3YQdhkHlcU

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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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