True peace requires a global and mutual effort — above and against our instinctive nature

Question from the Internet:

“Which areas of the world in conflict need help to bring peace?”

We evolved into a single, globally integrated and fully interdependent system. Everything and everybody is interconnected with everything and everybody else, and whatever happens, influences the whole system.

Thus there are no isolated conflicts anywhere. When a conflict breaks out in a remote area, it is like having small bone fractures in one’s foot. The whole body feels the pain, and the whole body rearranges to facilitate the most optimal healing.

As long as we view the world as a collection of seemingly random, isolated incidents and events that have no connection to one another, we will continue to sink into ever-deeper crises.

If we think that — despite all sitting on the same boat — we can drill holes underneath others, hoping they will sink, we are the fools who do not understand that the whole boat is sinking and we are all drowning.

We can see how the war in Ukraine, with all of its self-serving and self-justifying actions and reactions from different “powers”, is threatening the whole world and imagine what would happen if a war in Taiwan breaks out, for example.

At the same time, since everybody looks at only their own benefit and profit, we have no chance of comprehending, let alone solving the multiple growing global issues that threaten our existence even in the short term.

Based on the Hebrew origin of the word, peace means wholeness and perfection, where myriads of diverse and seemingly incompatible parts and elements perfectly and mutually complement each other.

Humanity urgently needs to learn how to achieve such “true peace”, where above and despite our inherently egocentric, self-serving and self-justifying, exploitative nature, we choose to selflessly, willingly and consciously mutually complement each other, so we build a higher, collective “Human being” out of the multiple individualistic parts.

This has nothing to do with utopia, mysticism, religion or with any of our arbitrary, misguided and unnatural ideologies or philosophies.

We have to do so because Nature’s strict and unforgiving laws — that govern the general balance and homeostasis life depends on — demand it from us.