What can we learn from human culture and society?

Question from the Internet:

“What have you realized based on your understanding of culture and society?”

Culture and society — including politics, governance and economics — are simply the external expressions of the interconnections and relationships between human beings.

And until now and even today, human relationships and interactions are dictated by our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, subjective and individualistic nature.

This means that when we connect and relate to each other, our intentions are always to gain maximum benefit from those relationships and interactions for minimum investment. We always want to get the maximum reward even when we seemingly “love” others or “give” to others since this is the only way our “inherent internal software” works. If there is no obvious benefit and reward at the end of the action, which justifies the invested effort, we simply cannot even move a finger.

This kind of 100% introverted and self-serving worldview and behaviour defines everything we can observe through culture and any other notion and activity within human society, both historically and also today.

If we would like to exert any changes, we cannot achieve them through external representations. This is why we keep failing with any “solutions” that involve politics, economy, social activities or culture — including religion.

If we want to make true changes, we need to address the root cause, the main “mover”, — which is our inherent nature. When we purposefully and willingly start changing ourselves and how we relate to others, then we will see true and positive changes.