We are the product of the environment — but we can choose what environment we are the product of

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readJan 2, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“How does being part of your generation affect the way you view the world?”

We are the product of our environment. And our peers, especially our own age group affect us most.

Thus our worldview, values, aspirations, and goals are 100% influenced by the generation we live in.

We can see this very clearly today when this influence is global, and absolutely visible through mass media, social media.

If we do not like what we see, how we are influenced — and more and more people do not like it although we are helplessly, inevitably flow along with the mainstream — we have the opportunity to establish our own, smaller but qualitatively higher, closed environment that fosters, cultivates different values, that has real, truly Human goals and purpose.

Then the much higher quality can neutralize the influence of the quantitatively greater very low-level quality, aimless general society through the positive, mutually responsible, mutually supportive integration.

This can reach such levels that the new, fresh, positive, purposeful environments could become the rescue boats for the sinking Titanic of the general, global human society.

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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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