True Happiness equals Collective Happiness — according to Nature
Question from the Internet:
“What is the fundamental cause of most unhappiness in our society?”
Unhappiness is caused mainly when we do not get what we want, or when we get something that we do not want. We also become unhappy when we do not actually have a true goal or purpose we exist for and the aimless, constant rat race for no discernable reason exhausts us.
And this is all true for our generation.
We constantly chase more, stronger, spicier personal fulfilment, we try to accumulate everything possible only for ourselves. And the more we get — and especially in Western societies, even most simple people have much more than what rulers, kings used to have a few centuries or even decades ago.
We get opportunities to live differently, to take others into consideration at least as much as we care for ourselves. Especially during the time of global problems like the pandemic or climate change caused problems we receive a chance to become mutually responsible for each other but we refused to even consider this possibility.
And whether we admit this or not, we simply have no real, “human” goal, purpose in life, we care only about a day to day pursuit of selfish pleasures, self-service and self-justification and we do not care what happens after tomorrow, we do not care what the long-term consequences of our blind, reckless actions might be.
We want “happiness” for ourselves — mostly at the expense of others — when true happiness — basically balance and homeostasis with our environment — is impossible individually. For “true happiness” we need to build unique, mutually responsible and mutually complementing relationships and cooperation, where each individual cares for the well-being and perfect fulfilment of the others, of the whole system as much as they care for themselves. Only when we reach the perfect mutual balance and homeostasis that creates and sustains life in Nature between human beings, only then will we enjoy a sense of “true happiness” that is collective between us, when we all feel the same fulfilment.
And even the aim, goal of reaching this happiness has to change. Nothing will change if we pursue this collective happiness, fulfilment only for our own sake — even collectively. We have to reach the “Nature-like” mutual integration and mutually assured collective balance and fulfilment in order to adapt ourselves to Nature’s fully integrated and interdependent system.
Only then do we become benevolently integrated and partnering part of the single, fully interconnected Natural system instead of acting like cancer in it. Even this is for our own benefit since by achieving this conscious, willing and purposeful integration into Nature — through optimally integrating with each other — above and against our inherently egocentric, subjective and selfish nature we become Nature’s only fully conscious element, the systems fully integrated but at the same time fully aware, independent observers and partners.
This is what Nature’s evolution and the lawful, deterministic Natural force-field we exist in demands from us, pushes us towards.