Living in a world of conflict and crisis

Question from the Internet:

“How does conflict lead to a crisis?”

Conflict arises when inherently different, instinctively self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and subjective individuals and nations want to succeed and survive at each other’s expense.

And it becomes a crisis when — even if they had true intentions to agree and try cooperating — they find that there is nothing they can agree on, that they inevitably in each other’s way and in order to find a “solution”, one needs to subdue or even destroy the other.

This is the template of our world, this is behind all historical, vicious cycles that recur and behind all the perpetual crises our generation is suffering from.

Our world is a world of conflict and crisis. We can turn this to our advantage. If we finally understand that this whole chaos and our march towards self-destruction originate from our inherent nature, we also develop a true need and desire to change ourselves — instead of blaming, changing or correcting others — in order to solve our problems and survive, we can escape the predictable and seemingly inevitable disasters and suffering that awaits us around the corner.

It is not only that we could avoid wars and socio-economic collapse by changing ourselves and how we relate to others, but we could better understand the mounting global problems facing us, and we will find true solutions for them through mutually responsible and mutually complementing cooperation.

Just look at the sad and revolting circus those so-called “world leaders” are putting up right now at the “climate conference” while none of them — and none of their sponsors — are truly interested in changing anything they do.

Without changing our whole mindset, and our whole attitude towards life and others, nothing will change, and we will walk into an apocalyptic crisis very soon.