What is the biggest challenge before humanity today?
Question from the Internet:
“What are the biggest challenges facing the world today, and how can they be solved?”
There is a single “greatest” challenge facing the world: learning how people need to connect and interact with each other.
When we look at living organisms, life is about selfless, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing communication and cooperation between diverse, seemingly incompatible elements that are united and forged together by the single goal of existing, surviving, and thriving.
In Nature, apart from humanity, this process happens automatically and instinctively, driven by the forces of Nature.
Individual human beings behave very differently toward each other.
We are all inherently self-serving, self-justifying, subjective, and individualistic. We care only about our own survival — most of the time at the expense of others and Nature.
Thus human society is not compatible with life as dictated by nature’s laws. Human society is a place of darkness, destruction, and death. Previously, this was not so obvious, although human history is basically a helplessly recurring chain of conflicts and wars.
Today’s society “beautifully” shows the brutally honest mirror to us. We can see who we are and what desires and intentions drive us as everybody is locked into their own egocentric and subjective corners, distrusting and hating others. And this will only get worse as our general conditions and our socioeconomic state will continue to worsen.
Our biggest challenge is to willingly and consciously understand and viscerally feel that we are not individual beings that are isolated from each other, but we are individual cells of the same, closed, and mutually integrated living organism.
Our “human advantage” above all other parts of Nature is that we have to come to the life-giving mutual integration consciously, above and against our inherent nature.
Then besides surviving and living, we also gain an unparalleled, collective human intellect and consciousness that can oversee and even control the whole Natural system.