What does an ideal human society look like?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readMay 12, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“What would your ideal society look like? What would be changed politically/socially?”

Humanity has been trying to create the ideal human society — and we keep failing through recurring, vicious, historic cycles.

Our own generation is just failing, collapsing despite trying the seemingly most optimal socioeconomic model of “liberal parliamentary democracy” and “free-market economy”. Of course what we call “liberal” is not really liberal, while the democracy we have even in our Western societies is very far from what it actually means. And the “free-market” is anything but free.

It does not matter what political ideologies, social structures or economic models we use. It does not matter what slogans we keep repeating or what we put on our flags.

Driven by our inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and exploitative nature, sooner or later human society is based on the same thing: the control, manipulation and exploitation of each other, usually ending in a pyramid structure where the hungrier, shrewder more selfish and powerful minority rules over the majority.

An ideal society — being an integral part of Nature’s system — looks like how Nature organizes and governs its life-giving and life-sustaining mutual integration. In such a Natural system each part and element has its own, unique and irreplaceable role, and function towards the whole system, while in return each part and element receives justly and proportionately exactly what it needs and deserves in order to incessantly maintain its crucial, mutually complementing contribution.

This is exactly how we need to reorganize human society if we want to overcome our mounting problems and safeguard our collective survival. Since we have to do this against and above our inherent nature, we need a special, purposeful and practical educational method.

And since we have to and will achieve this consciously, proactively and methodically against our instincts, we will achieve a unique, unparalleled place in nature’s system, becoming Nature’s only fully conscious, integrated but independent observers and 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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