There is a difference between saying we have a global problem and feeling we have a global problem
Question from the Internet:
“We think we have a problem, let’s say it’s a virus. But we know it’s not so simple. The problem doesn’t seem well enough defined yet just to rely on medical experts to solve it. We all agree that it’s our common problem. What’s the common solution?”
I think the problem starts with “saying" it is a common problem but not feeling it.
We all talk about a global world, about global problems, we keep hearing that we are all sitting on the same boat and we need to work together, but then what do we do?!
We keep acting as we always did, individually, nationally, making calculations only for ourselves, trying to succeed at each other’s expense.
If we needed any more proof the pandemic and the woefully inadequate reactions, “solutions" provided that proof. So we keep sinking into the pandemic, the virus keeps coming back wave after wave and it is not difficult to predict — despite the official defiance — that the vaccine won’t erase the virus threat.
And it is not only the pandemic that is threatening us, but all the other global problems like climate change, water shortage, pollution, antibiotic resistance, geopolitical flashpoints, social inequality, rising unemployment, depression, growing addictive substance abuse especially in the youth, etc.
And in our present fragmented, disunited manner we can’t solve any of them!
So first of all we need to solve the most important problem, helping people to learn, moreover feel what our inevitable integration, interdependence means and how we need to handle it. After all this integration is necessitated by Nature’s evolution, we can’t remain incompatible with the increasingly integrating Natural system we one of its species!
So we need a unique, purposeful and highly practical “Integral Education" that can teach us, make us feel — above and against our inherently selfish, egotistic, individualistic tendencies, instincts — what mutual integration, cooperation can give us beyond collective survival (which is not possible without it).