What should be the perfect ideals for building human societies?
Question from the Internet:
“The founding fathers chose life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If you had to list three basic human rights that all people deserve, what would they be?”
I would recommend, first of all, gradually understanding who we are and what system we exist in.
When we already understood and willingly accepted that our inherent nature, the engine that drives us is our 100% self-serving, self-justifying and subjective egos and that at the same time we are integral parts of Nature’s finely balanced, mutually integrated and totally interdependent system, we can start to re-arrange our worldview and the tasks and values we need to adhere to.
Until now all our constitutions, ideologies and philosophies human societies are built on have been completely arbitrary, based on our unfounded, egocentric and subjective worldview and thinking.
When we are talking about “life, liberty and happiness” we are chasing some ideals we have actually no idea about and we paint some pictures and definitions that seem and sound right to us — according to how we perceive the world according to our introverted egos.
As a result, we do not have any absolute standards about “life, liberty, happiness, equality or peace” for example, we simply pursue what constitutes as pleasure for our selfish ego and distance ourselves from whatever causes suffering to the selfish and subjective ego.
If we want to properly redefine the notions the “founding fathers” determined as fundamental, we would need some absolute and objective standards. And we have those in Nature’s system.
Life is a process that is created and sustained by the most optimal, positive, totally selfless and unconditional mutually responsible and mutually complementing cooperation of myriads of extremely diverse and seemingly incompatible elements that interconnect for the single purpose to create and sustain life for the whole collective.
Moreover — as we can observe through our biological body — such unique cooperation also gives birth to a higher, collective consciousness we ourselves consider as the consciousness of our “self” above the existence of all our cells, organs and the microbiome that all contribute to the life and survival of this “higher self”.
In this context, “liberty” is the liberation of each individual element and part to think about and care for itself since through perfect mutual responsibility and cooperation provides the most optimal fulfilment of all.
And “happiness” is the state of perfect balance and homeostasis all elements and parts feel in the healthy, living organism.
Now try substituting elements and parts in nature, or even the cells of the biological body with individual human beings and imagine what we could achieve as a result…
This is not some kind of a lofty utopia. Achieving a Nature-like, mutually integrated, collective human existence with a “higher”, collective consciousness and intellect is obligated by Nature’s fundamental laws and by evolution’s relentless and deterministic progress.
And as long as we choose our own arbitrary laws and ideas over Nature’s we will continue to fail in building civilizations and human societies until intolerable suffering — which has become a very realistic state for our generation — will force us to achieve what we could achieve willingly and wisely by ourselves.