The potentially positive effect of the Coronavirus

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readFeb 7, 2021

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Question from the Internet:

“Did the Coronavirus pandemic change your lives in a positive way?”

The Coronavirus has the potential to change all of our lives in a positive way — if we learn the lessons it provides.

The pandemic has shown us in the sharpest way so far, how globally integrated and interdependent we are. Unfortunately through our own, woefully inadequate, selfish, individualistic, and nationalistic reactions, “solutions”, instinctively trying to succeed at each other’s expense we have also shown that we are incompatible with our integrated, interdependent evolutionary conditions.

The pandemic also pulled the plug from the “life support machine” that kept reviving our unsustainable socio-economic system, based on excessive overconsumption and ruthless competition, a small minority always manipulating, exploiting the majority. There is no return to that system which was going to inevitably self-destruct anyway.

Thus the virus gave us a chance to rebuild Human society on completely new foundations, this time using Nature’s integral template as foundations instead of our misguided Human philosophies, ideologies, religions that are all based on our selfish, exploitative egos.

So if we decoded the lesson of the pandemic well, we can all enroll into a unique, purposeful, and practical educational method that can teach us how to rebuild Human connections and society on Nature-like, mutually responsible and mutually complementing interconnections, cooperation above and against our selfish, egoistic instincts.

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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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