What do children need to avoid chaos and destruction in the future?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readDec 21, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“What are some practical ways that might help encourage children to develop an understanding of the inherent value of our intuition, which retains a sense of order in the world without the risk of descending humanity into chaos and anarchy?”

Children need the proper education that can teach them “life.”

In that respect, I am not sure about the value of “intuition.” According to a quick Google search on the meaning of “intuition,” it is “the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.”

The problem is that our instincts, our automatic and core nature are inherently self-serving, self-justifying, individualistic, and subjective. It is specifically our inherent and instinctive nature that causes humanity to descend into chaos and anarchy since everybody makes their calculations based on their own intuition, based on 100% egocentric and subjective calculations that care only about selfish pleasure and escaping personal pain.

Instead, people need a unique, purposeful, and practical education that can help us understand and actually and viscerally feel how inevitably and irrevocably interdependent we all are. We need to understand and feel that in order to survive and build a better human society, we need to exist and act above and against our instinctive urges, desires, and calculations.

Then based on this understanding and emotional impressions, we can start rebuilding humanity and the fabric of society based on nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template.

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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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