Making a positive difference in the world

Question from the Internet:

“How can we make a positive difference in the world during our lifetime?”

Before trying to make a positive difference in the world, we need to know in which direction we can make that positive difference. We need an overall goal and purpose to know how to measure what is “positive vs. negative” and what is forward or backward.

Without an overall goal or purpose, we have to standard against which we can measure and assess anything.

We can see from history that humanity established many different goals and purposes; we constantly try to move the goalposts or the “flag on the summit” because we actually do not have any certain or solid final goal against which we could measure ourselves, which we could develop.

We have no idea what our actual human purpose in life is. We do not even know why we are called “human beings” and how we could become “Human.”

By default, we are not Human yet. We are “glorified animals,” living blindly and instinctively, driven by our instinctive nature that is actually worse than the instinctive nature of animals. We are also blindly searching to fulfill our desires like animals and fight for survival in all kinds of ways, but animals do this, always remaining within the general balance and homeostasis of nature’s system.

Animals kill and consume only when they need to for their survival, and they do so in a way that actually preserves and promotes the whole system toward an even better, more refined, and more balanced state. They never abandon or destroy the optimal parameters of natural necessities and available resources. They all instinctively sense and safeguard the most optimal well-being of the whole system; they feel nature’s “mutual guarantee” — each element selflessly and perfectly complementing the whole at all costs.

Humans harm, destroy, kill, and consume for personal benefit and joy; we actually enjoy succeeding at the expense of others. We can ignore or refute this, but from early childhood games to sports and politics, not to mention war and business, our whole life is built on the concept of progressing by harming and destroying and controlling others.

Humanity is now literally dying since our human ego — driving us towards this unnatural and self-destructive existence — has reached its maximum potential. Our incompatibility with nature’s laws and evolution’s progress has reached such a level that we are losing our right to exist in nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated system that is infinitely greater and more powerful than humanity.

So when we want to make a positive difference in the world, we have only a single way to do so. We have to learn, practice and promote how humanity — as a single species, as a single, mutually integrated, and mutually complementing organism — can “become like nature” and integrate into nature through the acquired similarity.

And only then do we actually become Human beings. In Hebrew, “human” means “Adam,” and this name comes from the notion of “similar.” A truly Human being is one that achieves similarity and equivalence with nature’s system and its laws consciously, above and against one’s inherent nature.

It is this consciously and proactively achieved similarity and integration with nature — through the purposeful and methodical mutual integration in humanity — that will help us reach our unique and very high, evolutionary Human purpose in nature: to become the system’s only conscious, integrated, and at the same time independent observers and equal partners.