Thank you for your opinion and the articles provided. They are indeed very thorough and contain much useful advice, action-plan.
On the other hand, here and there such advice, action plans have been circulated before. There have been many seemingly positive ideologies, attempts to change societies and try to make ourselves similar to Nature. We also have known for a while that capitalism, especially “crony, or raw capitalism” is destructive. But then all other alternatives failed spectacularly as well.
It seems to me that most of the things we try to do, we stubbornly keep repeating ignores, misses the root cause of the problems. So everything we try is simply symptomatic and might give us temporary, mostly psychological improvement while the disease like a hidden, chronic disease cancer continues to spread and worsen.
Until we recognize and accept that the root cause of all our problems is our own, inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature, our instincts that drive us towards success at each other’s and Nature’s expense we will not achieve anything, we won’t even understand the problems we try to solve.
Capitalism is the closest to how our nature works, this is why it became the mainstream ideology and system and this is why all other ideologies, systems need coercion, terror to sustain.
I know that most people honestly believe that they are not egoistic, they can scale down to natural necessities, they can truly help and support others. Our inherent ego is like a snake that needs to be provoked either by some extreme circumstances or by a unique method that allows us to come to know the true desires, intentions, forces that drive us in safe, “laboratory” circumstances. And when we revealed the destructive but at the same time irrepressible ego in such a way, we can also learn how to harness, channel its incredible power towards positive, collective goals, purpose.
Without revealing and treating the root cause we simply repeat the helplessly recurring historic vicious cycles until we completely self-destruct.