The real effort starts when we decide to change ourselves

Question from the Internet:

“Why do people put a lot of effort into making the world a worse place when they can put effort into making it a better place?”

It does not take any effort to make the world a worse place. We make the world a worse place without any effort, simply, blindly and instinctively following our inherent nature.

We are all born inherently 100% self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and individualistic. Knowingly or unknowingly, we all strive to consume and accumulate goods and resources way beyond our necessities — when we have the opportunity to do so — and we all survive and succeed at the expense of others.

Whether we admit it or not, we all gain pleasure and happiness when our opponents or enemies lose, and we can prove ourselves above others in place of others.

There is nothing “criminal” or “evil” about this. We are born with such an operating software that drives us this way in any given situation an condition.

So the real effort starts only when we already recognize our inherent nature and decide that we want to change and further develop ourselves to make the world a better place. We need to come to this decision willingly and consciously. We need to also recognize that we can never convince or coerce others to change. We all need to change and further develop ourselves only.

Then, through a shining positive example — while the rest of the world continues to collapse — we will be able to influence and pull others towards self-correction as well.

Since we will need to develop and change against our inherent nature in order to build finely balanced and mutually integrated human societies, the real efforts and our actual free choice start when we agree to such changes.