The future of humanity: teamwork of unique individuals

Question from the Internet:

“Why are humans so difficult to organize?”

Humans are difficult to organize because, by default, we are all completely egocentric, subjective, fiercely and proudly individualistic beings.

This egocentric and subjective individuality is expressed in us in different manners and strengths. Some seem to blend into the crowd and show no individuality or desire to stand out, but deep down we are all the same, and given the right conditions or settings, this fierce individuality breaks out in all of us.

We all want to follow our own desires, and our own dreams, we all want to climb the highest, proving ourselves above and against others.

Especially in the West, we worship the “standout” individual that amasses individual wealth and control, that succeeds at the expense of others. As a result, it is the West that is collapsing first in an age, where our globally integrated and interdependent existence requires a completely different template of life from us.

In this fully interconnected and interdependent world we will need to learn how to harness and use our individual qualities and abilities — without suppressing or erasing any of them — for the sake of the whole, building a diverse, multi-colored, and living Human mosaic.

Since we have to learn how to exist and behave above and against our instinctive worldview and behavior which has been used and cemented in human civilization for millennia, we need a special, purposeful, and practical method.

This method can teach us and make us viscerally feel how interdependent we are, and how much we all benefit from acting and living together through mutually responsible and mutually complementing integration and cooperation instead of surviving and succeeding at each other’s expense.

Even in our toxic and destructive Western society, we can see positive examples we could follow. Phil Jackson was such a successful coach in the NBA because somehow he knew how to “herd” and motivate overpaid and primadonna-like individual starts into a cohesive and winning team, by aiming all of them towards a single goal. At least for those 48 minutes on the court they could channel and harness their individual talents and uniqueness for the sake of the team winning, each performing their unique and irreplaceable roles perfectly.

We all have to learn and practice this, initially for the common goal of collective human survival. And when we figured out how to comprehend and solve global problems through the mutually responsible “teamwork” of billions of people, we will gradually find much greater and higher common goals and successes we can achieve together, as “one man with one heart”.