The single biggest problem in the world

Question from the Internet:

“What is the major problem of the world these days?”

The major problem with the world these days is that we do not know what the problem is with the world at all.

We are “finding” all kinds of problems with the climate, with the economy, with certain geopolitical situations, and of course, we find a lot of problems with others. And then we offer “solutions” to these problems and wonder why things are constantly getting worse, instead of improving.

Consciously or unconsciously we keep ignoring and hiding the real problems. We are actually petrified of recognizing the real problem since we know that recognizing and diagnosing the real problems would force us to do the very thing we never, ever want to do: to change and correct ourselves.

But it does not matter how much we want to avoid or escape it. It does not matter how stubbornly and vehemently we try to blame everything and everybody else. It does not even matter if we manage to silence, censor, suppress, or destroy everybody else in the world. We won’t be able to escape the need to look into a brutally honest mirror to see who we are, because otherwise, we will simply not survive.

We have to recognize and accept the single root cause of all historical and present-day problems humanity has ever faced and still facing is our own, inherently, 100% self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature. The root cause of all problems is that each and every one of us is capable of making only 100% self-serving and self-justifying calculations and that we all try to survive and succeed at each other’s and nature’s expense — knowingly or unknowingly.

Only when we finally recognized and accepted that this is so, and we also developed a true, irrepressible, and intolerable need to change ourselves can we start talking about and working on true solutions.

And those true solutions have to start with agreeing to willingly and consciously upgrade and further develop ourselves, until above and against our inherent nature we will become capable of mutually integrating in a mutually responsible and mutually complementing way.

Only when we build nature-like, finely balanced, and mutually cooperating integration will we start understanding the natural system we exist in, and our own role and purpose in the system.

Only then will we understand what has been causing all the problems we have encountered and in what way can we solve and prevent them.

We exist in a global, fully integrated, and interdependent world. All our problems are global and integral. Thus only in a fully integrated and mutually cooperating manner can we understand and solve our problems and build a better and qualitatively much higher, collective Human existence for all of us.

This has nothing to do with our arbitrary and misguided ideologies, philosophies, or religions, which are all the products of our inherent nature. We will have to go through this self-developmental process according to the strict and unforgiving laws of nature — laws we have no control over, and we cannot ignore or bribe.