What is the greatest challenge facing humanity?
Question from the Internet:
“What is the biggest challenge facing humanity today?”
The biggest challenge humanity is facing today is learning how to live in a globally integrated and interdependent world despite and against our inherently egocentric, subjective, and individualistic nature.
Human development so far has been driven by the 100% self-serving, self-justifying, and insatiably exploitative human ego. It is this ego that fueled both individual and collective development. This ego is the basis of our excessively overconsuming and ruthlessly competitive human society, where each individual tries to succeed and survive at the expense of others and Nature.
At the same time, — as we have come to recognize — we exist in a globally integrated and interdependent world which is an integral part of Nature’s fully integrated and interdependent system. And by now, the incompatibility between our inherent nature and our actual and evolutionary conditions has reached a breaking point.
Unless we learn — by methodically copying Nature’s finely balanced and mutually integrated template to human interconnections and into the fabric of human society — against and above our instinctive nature and behavior — we will simply not survive.
Our human system has already started collapsing; everything we have ever built is slipping through our fingers since nothing we ever had or have has Natural foundations or “right to exist” since everything is based on the “unnatural” and destructive human ego.
We have to learn how to exist and behave for the sake of the whole system — including humanity and Nature — instead of blindly and automatically calculating, deciding, and acting only for our own sake in any given conditions. And since this is totally against our inherent nature, we need a unique, purposeful, and practical method and a special environment of dedicated, mutually supporting, and mutually complementing people to learn and practice this new kind of existence above our inherent nature.