We can’t correct something unless we know what caused it!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJun 12, 2020

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Human history is the living proof that we can’t solve problems unless we know their root cause.

Although we have been constantly changing our governing, economic, social structures, then destroy everything when we fail and stubbornly start again, only in our generation did we get closer to actually finding, and probably treating the root cause of our recurring vicious cycles.

We can already see that without changing something fundamental, we will walk into the same socio-economic crash and world war combo that we experienced only 70–80 years ago.

But finally, more and more people see and accept the bitter diagnosis that the root cause is inside ourselves.

It is our inherently selfish, egocentric, and exploitative operating program that drives all of us that distorts, corrupts even the best looking plans, ideologies, structures, driving us into deepening crisis, dead-ends again and again.

If there is at least a crucial, “critical mass” of people who accept that first of all they need to change themselves - instead of trying to change others - before they want to change the world, then we will be able to pull Humanity out of the blind, self-destructive, instinctive development towards a conscious, safer, more peaceful path of progress.

Even if the rest of the people don’t accept the diagnosis yet - and continue with the present, unnatural way of life - they will see the increasing, sharp difference between how they plunge into deeper crisis, while the positively changing critical mass - through their newly, methodically built small environments - keep improving, solving and preventing problems effortlessly as a result of their mutually responsible, mutually complementing cooperation.

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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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