Living in a “networked world”

Question from the Internet:

“Do you think you are ready for the networked world? Or better yet, is your community ready for the networked world?”

We can see from many signs that neither our close community nor the world, in general, is ready for the “networked world”.

I am not sure what you meant about “networked world”, but since we have evolved into a globally integrated and fully interdependent world due to the pressure from Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system, we have all become parts of a single living network that renders all of us as single cells in a single living organism.

Although mentally, many people understand this, when it comes to practical implementation — to actually live like a single, mutually responsible and mutually complementing network of “single-cells” that form a living organism — we simply cannot do it; we do not want to do it.

Our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and individualistic nature creates all kinds of excuses and obstacles to developing such true, mutual interconnections between individuals and nations. Thus we keep reverting to ruthless competition, wars and mutual destruction even when we already understand that we can survive only together.

This is why we urgently need a unique, purposeful and practical educational method that can help us not only understand but “viscerally and tangibly” feel how interconnected and interdependent we are.

Only when we actually feel without any doubts — with the help of that method — that our individual health, success and survival are irrevocably intertwined with the health, success and survival of everybody else can we agree to act as mutually responsible and mutually complementing parts of the “networked world” — that is obligated by Nature’s laws.