The process of self-changing
Opinion from the Internet about changing our nature:
“The challenge there is that even when upgrading one’s self doing so can also lead to the tendency to think what works for “me” works for everybody. That can lead to desperate beliefs that other people making the shift “I” made need correcting. The bigger problems occur when such people have the backing to actually try and “correct” others.
It takes personal evolution to get to the point where different people are at different stages of their own evolution and accept that is where they are and not feel compelled to try to “help” them. even if that isn’t your role or in others best interest.
There is however legit wisdom that should be shared and/or advocated and at least listened to if not followed. At some point you see detrimental cycles and know how badly they can go and the desire to disrupt those cycles is as natural as anything else. There is no guarantee the resulting new cycle won’t have new better or worse issues, but with whatever knowledge can be gained from the new cycle the next time through the cycle people can decide whether to repeat it or disrupt it. Of course, ideally, the people involved have free choice in that matter. The problem lies when other people are choosing whether cycles repeat or get disrupted.
It would be ideal for people to have freedom to choose their own fate. The problem is nobody anywhere lives in true isolation. Our choices affect others. So choosing not to end a detrimental cycle for yourself is fine as long as the fallout of that choice is limited to you. If, however, others are involved then others WILL have an opinion if not take action.
So, yeah, everybody should have the opportunity to succeed or fail by their own merits without other people or countries dictating how we should live. But if the way we are living is predictably leading to genocidal tendencies for our neighbors or destroying ecosystems that the rest of the world are dependent on, or are fouling the air for water for people down-window/stream then at some point an intervention is in order and the people receiving the intervention will be grumpy about it and feel like they are the victims … because that’s standard human idiosyncrasy.
Others are a mirror for us to see ourselves and identify whether we like who we see through their eyes. Arguably others are the only way we can grow and have our ideas challenged to the degree that we either are vindicated in having those ideas or realize those ideas do not work outside of the safe-spaces we create to explore our ideas away from others.”
I fully agree with you.
No changes can occur, remain sustainable through coercion, only when people willingly change seeing the obvious benefit in the changes.
So the education, science I was writing about is about giving people the method and the tools to change, upgrade themselves if they want, when they already see the need for it.
Regarding the rest of the people we don’t need to worry for two reasons.
First of all, especially as we exist in a fully integrated, interdependent system, those who already start changing themselves will become a qualitatively much higher, positive, critical mass, that can positively influence the whole system since the others only act passively, blindly driven by their inherent instincts.
Moreover, we don’t exist in isolation, we exist in Nature’s lawful, deterministic system. So as long as humanity doesn’t change willingly, Nature will increasingly pressure us through crisis situations, natural disasters until the intolerable suffering will convince the majority to change also.
This can also be mitigated, helped, eased by the critical mass, qualitatively advanced minority helping others with their positive example.
We are in a classical “good cop/bad cop" scenario, Nature providing the negative pressure while the proactive, conscious, already self-changing minority providing the positive pull forward!