We are born for war, but we can learn how to build peace

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“Has human behavior historically had more to do with war through the centuries than actual peace?”

I think history speaks for itself, humanity has been in an almost constant state of actual or “cold war” with occasional periods of cease-fires, peace treaties that never held “forever”.

And the reason for this is that we are all born with an inherently “warmongering”, ruthlessly competitive, egocentric, exploitative nature. We all thrive — knowingly, unknowingly for success, survival at the expense of others, we all define, justify ourselves in comparison to others, trying to be higher than them.

And we also know by now, that we cannot suppress, erase the original, innate engine, the self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic ego in us.

Thus true peace will come only, when we all recognize and accept the instinctive, irrepressible war hero, the warrior in us and above, against this innate destructive force we build positive, sustainable, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing connections, cooperation based on crucially important collective, mutual goals.

This can be achieved through a unique, purposeful, and practical educational method that can help us understand, viscerally feel how interdependent, mutually integrated we are — regardless of what we think or want — and that destroying, killing others equals consuming, harming ourselves since we are all but individual cells of the same, living organism.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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