Only education can save us from existential threats, from a global meltdown

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readAug 26, 2020

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An opinion from the Internet on how the necessary changes in Humanity could unfold:

In the words of Joan Baez: “The difference between the Democractic and Republican parties, is like the difference between polio and cancer.

It seems that the only event which can bring people together is a viable existential threat to the survival of the species. Even then, if the external threat is defeated, what’s to say that humanity wont return to its old ways? It is all about loving and caring for each other. Pray.

This is why only the right education can offer a true solution.

The viable existential threat is coming, as we are sleepwalking towards a very real, global meltdown which could happen from multiple, diverse reasons, triggered from multiple seemingly unconnected locations all over the world.

The education I am recommending is unlike any other education we have know, applied since most of today’s education has remained unchanged since the industrial revolution: producing good workers and good consumers.

We need a unique, purposeful educational method that can help us understand and moreover feel what it means to live in a world where everybody depends on everybody else and we are obligated to become fully, mutually responsible for one another.

And this goes way beyond Democrats, Republicans, US, Russia, China or any other place, nation, ideology, dogma, or greed. This affects all of us, obligates all of us according to the laws of Nature that sustain the balance and homeostasis life depends on.

So we are entering a “good cop, bad cop” scenario: Nature will increase the pressure on us taking Humanity ever closer to an existential threat, intolerable suffering, while with the right education we can start “running” towards the changes we need to perform, always a step ahead of the blows.

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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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