Standing at the turning point of changing human development
Question from the Internet:
“Should human civilization be brought down to the point of a change in socialization and maturity? If not, why?”
As we can see from real-life events all around us, humanity is being brought down to the point of change ‘as we speak.” Our “proud and modern” human system — its peak version symbolized by Western society — is collapsing, and there is nothing we can do to stop it.
There is nothing we can do to stop it since this “proud and modern” human system is built by and for our insatiable, inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic egos that care about nothing else but how to serve ourselves at the expense of everything and everybody else.
And as long as we blindly follow our “raw and unfinished” human nature — with only the ego dictating everything we do — we exist and behave like cancer and now we are standing at the brink of seemingly inevitable and imminent self-destruction. This self-destruction can be initiated by many different causes in many different locations. We are in a total system failure since our foundation for life — serving only ourselves at the expense of others and nature — is wrong.
So now we are forced to change, or if not now, when our suffering and pain become truly intolerable and only a handful of survival are left, then we will change.
And as you suggested, we will have to change how we socialize, how we interact and cooperate, and for that, we have to reach a certain maturity.
This maturity — understanding the laws of the natural system we need to follow, understanding why evolution “created us” with this raw, unfinished, and destructive egoistic nature — can come about as a result of intolerable suffering, and this maturity can also come about as a result of a special, purposeful and practical method, with which help we could even prevent the suffering or at least mitigate it.
With the help of this method — before it becomes too late — we could start to understand and actually “viscerally” feel how inevitably and irrevocably integrated and interdependent we are, like cells of the same living organism. And then, we can also start to feel how much our individual health, prosperity, safety, and survival are tantamount to the health, prosperity, safety, and survival of the whole.
We could also understand and feel that it has nothing to do with what we think or philosophize but that it is all determined and governed by strict, unchanging, and unforgiving laws of nature we cannot ignore, change or circumvent.
Only when we consciously understand and at the same time learn and practice how to build nature-like, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing integration, and cooperation between us on a global scale — above and against our inherent nature — can we secure and facilitate our continuing survival. And as soon as we start practicing through the above-mentioned method, we will also start sensing a very clear state of “reward and punishment.”: as long as we keep nature-like cooperation and integration above and against our inherent nature, we solve problems and succeed, while the moment we fall back into selfish and egoistic separation and start succeeding at each other’s expense, we will immediately suffer.
Only when we can already maintain our unity and existence as a singular living organism, where we all become healthy cells that serve one another, only then will we start to feel that we gain much more than “simple physical survival” and rise to a qualitatively much higher sense of existence for which it is worthwhile to give up our inherent illusion of selfish and individualistic existence.