What can we truly learn from human history?

Zsolt Hermann
3 min readSep 3, 2023

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Question from the Internet:

“Do you think that what humans have created so far is good for us?”

It is good for one reason.

Whatever we have built so far, the whole of human history so far, is a testament that as long as we blindly follow our inherently and 100% self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature, whatever we build will crumble, wherever we develop will become a weapon and we reach a point of seemingly inevitable self-destruction after the millennia-long recurring vicious cycles.

It is our generation that needs to consciously and humbly recognize — after all the overwhelming experience and proof of history and contemporary society — that our inherent nature is our enemy, and we urgently need to change and further develop ourselves.

We are a unique generation that received the chance to take our fate and future human development into our own hands.

Humanity is the only part of nature that can consciously recognize its incompatibility with nature’s laws and evolution’s relentless and deterministic direction. We are the only elements in nature that can proactively and consciously adapt ourselves to evolution and prevent becoming extinct.

Everything that ever happened so far in human history, everything we have ever done, was simply a preparation to awaken this new, conscious, and purposeful Huyman development that needs to start now.

So everything that has happened so far, everything that we see in human society today, is extremely important.

If we did not see without any doubt that the instinctively selfish, egotistic, and exploitative human lifestyle, where we excessively overconsume everything and ruthlessly compete with each other, where our success and survival are built on controlling, manipulating, and exploiting others and nature, is destructive and self-destructive like cancer, we would never have the drive and necessity to change and further develop ourselves.

But now, everything is open before us. And although many people still try to try and try again “solutions,” ideologies and philosophies that have already failed many times, more and more people understand and tangibly feel that we need to start something completely new.

This completely new is humbly, willingly, consciously, and purposefully changing ourselves — instead of blaming, correcting, or destroying others — until we manage to adapt ourselves to nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated conditions, which we need to practice and implement in human society, through the optimal interconnections between people.

The contrast and comparative recognition between our original, self-destructive, selfish, and egoistic development and lifestyle and the new, mutually integrated, and mutually complementing human system where we all calculate and exist only for the sake of the whole system above any self-benefit will help us understand and attain nature’s system in its perfect totality.

Perception and true science work based on contrast, trials and errors, and comparative research. Only human beings — who are born incompatible with nature and can gain compatibility consciously by their own efforts — have this special ability to recognize and attain how nature creates and nurtures life.

This is our true Human advantage in nature. It is this unique contrast and attainment that will make us nature’s only fully conscious, seamlessly integrated, and at the same time independent “inner observers” and equal partners.

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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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