What is the biggest challenge facing humanity?

Question from the Internet:

“What are some of the biggest challenges facing our planet, and how can we address them?”

There is one “mother of all challenges” which we need to understand and solve. By solving this single most important challenge we can solve everything else.

The “mother of all” challenges is our total and inherent inability to build positive, constructive, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing integration and cooperation with each other. And this is basically and literally a “death sentence” in the globally integrated and fully interdependent natural system we exist in.

In our generation, I do not think anybody would argue, that all human beings are inherently and 100% self-serving, self-justifying, and individualistic. We all fight for individual freedom and individual rights. We all define ourselves through comparisons to others and justify ourselves by trying to become better, higher, stronger, wealthier, more powerful, and more respected than others.

Knowingly or unknowingly we all survive and succeed at the expense of others and all human systems are built on ruthless competition, conflicts, and wars.

The most prolific services and industries are based around insuring, protecting, and defending ourselves against others and creating tools and abilities through which we can control, manipulate or destroy others.

From board games to sports or trade, all our activities are about defeating, humiliating, and beating others. This is how our inherent nature works and drives us.

Thus unity, connection, mutual co-existence, and cooperation are simply not “in our blood”. Even when our existence is threatened we can’t unite and make calculations or actions for the sake of others. And even when terrible disasters bring us together temporarily, it is only from selfish interest, for saving or justifying ourselves.

Thus true unity, the actually working and sustainable mutual responsibility and mutual cooperation — our continuing collective survival depends on — is something we need to learn and practice. It will not happen by itself, not even as a result of blows or intolerable suffering.

This is why our present and future solely depends on a unique, purposeful, and highly practical method, that can not only teach us but can make us viscerally feel how interdependent we are, and how much we are all but individual cells of the same living organism. Then, based on such total understanding and visceral emotional impressions we can start acting and behaving above and against our inherent nature.

And then we will be able to understand and solve all of our worsening challenges while preventing future ones. And only then will we start to understand and feel that our human purpose in life is much greater and much more important than simply worrying about ourselves or about our collective physical survival.