The end of the American Dream is a turning point for all of us

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readAug 5, 2021

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Question from the Internet:

“Is the US in the decadence phase of human civilization?”

Yes, we can say that. The US represents the peak of self-serving, narcissistic, egoistic human development. We have all found our deepest selfish, egoistic dreams in the “American Dream”, we all thrived either to move to America or at least to copy their lifestyle, achievements on ourselves in some way.

But now this dream is turning into a nightmare.

It is not the fault of the Americans, it is nobody’s fault. We have reached the end of the blind, instinctive phase of human development which was solely about the progress, success, prosperity, and survival of the unique, egoistic individual — at the expense of everything and everybody else.

It is like the end of childhood when the previously awesome, seemingly reckless quantitative growth has to stop and a more mature, qualitative growth starts.

We are standing at this turning point, when we have to start a new, this time conscious phase of human evolution, in line with Nature’s laws of integration, in line with evolution’s relentless direction towards amalgamating its system into a single, interdependent whole with humanity having a very special, unparalleled role in this single whole.

Specifically the fact that we have to achieve Nature’like integration with each other and through it with Nature above and against our inherent inclination gives us a total, objective view and understanding of Nature’s perfect system, giving us the opportunity to become equal partners with the system instead of being enemies to it.

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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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