We cannot solve any problems or change the world for the better without changing ourselves first!

Question from the Internet:

“Why is recycling useless?”

Because it is just one of those kneejerk and superficial actions, we try to do to “change and save” the world. And in the same way, we make huge efforts to “save animals and the planet” and “solve” the climate crisis, and this is how we “try hard” to build a peaceful and equal human society.

We are stuck in looking and treating the symptoms because we can’t stomach to look for and find the root cause. And we can see how “successful” we are while helplessly sinking ever deeper into crisis.

Nothing will work, and we will continue to threaten our own continuing existence unless we finally have the bravery and humbleness to recognize and accept that the root cause of all the problems humanity ever faced and still faces is inside of us. It is the inherently selfish, egocentric, individualistic and exploitative human nature — driving each and every person — that has been causing all of our problems.

No superficial action will yield any results unless we ourselves change. We will not be able to comprehend, let alone solve, any of our problems unless we find our own egos behind them.

Changing or improving the world start with changing, improving and further developing ourselves. Instead of caring only about ourselves, doing everything only for our own sake, and accumulating and consuming everything through egocentric and subjective calculations while succeeding and surviving at each other’s expense, we need to learn how to exist and behave only for the sake of others and the whole system.

This has nothing to do with any of our arbitrary and misguided ideologies, philosophies or religions. We have to change because this is what Nature’s strict, unchanging and unforgiving laws demand from us.