To heal the disease we need to treat the root cause first.
While the pandemic and the anxiety about restarting the dormant Human system is focusing on markets, financial systems, the pandemic exposed a systematic problem that goes much deeper than the markets, banks, production.
After all, we already knew that there is something wrong with the markets, financial systems. Way before the pandemic started the markets, financial institutions constantly needed propping up, blood transfusions, “helicopter money” to revive the already exhausted and debt-ridden consumers to keep “aggregate demand” and the excessive, artificial consumerist system going.
Through the self-destructive, individualistic, nationalistic, uncoordinated responses to the crisis, we got a bit closer to the root cause of all our problems and we also got the answer why we can’t solve these problems with political, economic, social or even military means.
The root cause of our “disease” is the real “virus”, our own inherently self-serving, self-justifying, exploitative and individualistic egos, that drive us towards everything we do, ruthlessly, exclusively trying to succeed, survive at the expense of everybody, everything else ignoring the consequences like a virus or cancer.
Until we humbly accept this and we willingly, purposefully, methodically start correcting the problem within ourselves — through a unique, purposeful and practical educational method that can help us change without coercion, through positive motivation, drawing people willingly — it does not matter what “normal” we try to return to, what other political, economic, social “solutions” we try, we will continue sleepwalking to much greater global calamities, until the intolerable suffering will “open our eyes” and force us to change against our will.
The remedy is in learning how to build mutually responsible, mutually complementing connections, cooperation above and despite everything that separates, rejects us from each other, as only through such connections can we survive in Nature’s fully integrated and interdependent system we exist in.
Then we will be able to build a new, appropriate socio-economic system based on those positive, sustainable Human interconnections but not before.
