What is wrong with human culture?

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readNov 6, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“What do you dislike about the Human culture as a human/Earthling yourself?”

Human culture and everything we observe and experience in human society is just the external expression of our human nature. And while this human nature is expressed through different cultures through different social, political or economic systems and forms, the bottom line is the same for all of us.

We are all inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric and proudly and fiercely individualistic. And as such, we all strive at ruthless competition and knowingly or unknowingly, we all gain pleasure and satisfaction from succeeding at the expense of others.

We all define and prove ourselves through comparison to others, thus, any state or action that places us above others is preferable for us.

We can’t improve or change anything in the world before we recognize the true desires, aspirations and intentions that drive all of us. Nothing will change until we keep blaming, correcting, censoring or destroying others in order to “make the world a better place”.

Only when we honestly and humbly recognize our destructive and self-destructive inherent nature and also develop a true need and desire to positively and purposefully change ourselves can we make true changes and improve our collective existence.

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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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