What is our responsibility towards humanity?
Question from the Internet:
“What is my responsibility to society and/or humanity? What prevents most people from upholding that responsibility?”
We have reached a point in our human development where we have to understand and actually and viscerally feel that we are all part of a single, fully, and mutually integrated system.
When we start learning and practicing who we are and what system we exist in, we will realize that, in effect, we are all individual cells of the same living human organism that is also an integral part of Nature’s fully integrated and interdependent network.
Our mutual responsibility towards each other is absolute.
I have to come to feel that the existence of everybody and everything depends on my most optimal relationship and participation in this integral system. I have to come to feel that I am holding the Oxygen pipe to everybody and everything else, and if I do not open and provide this pipe, I cause harm and destruction to the same system.
And everybody has to feel similarly from their own point of view. Only human beings are capable of consciously feeling this and acting with free choice in closing or opening this Oxygen pipe toward the rest of the system. The rest of Nature automatically and instinctively organized and enlivened in a way that each particle and element, by default, performs their most optimal, mutually supportive, and mutually contributing role towards the rest.
Human beings are born with an inherently opposite and harmful state as if we were created with an “unfinished operating software.” By default, we all care only about ourselves and about our own most optimal state. At the same time, we ruthlessly compete with everybody and everything “outside of ourselves” and try to survive and succeed at the expense of others and Nature.
Our unique “human education” is about willingly and consciously learning how to become benevolent, selflessly and unconditionally serving and contributing parts of the system against and above our original qualities and inclinations that point us only towards ourselves in total self-love and self-service.
From within the contrast between our selfish and individualistic instincts and our learned and acquired “Nature-like” mutual integration and love and service of others emerge the “truly Human being”: a fully conscious, integrated, and at the same time independent observer and partner of Nature’s cosmic system.