Who are the “friends” that can change the world?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readDec 22, 2021

Question from the Internet:

“Do friends together change the world or is it done by war and hatred of those who disagree with us mostly?”

I think — based on historic experience — we can easily conclude that ruthless competition, recurring wars, unity based on the hatred of others change the world only to worse. If we keep following our instinctive nature the next round of large-scale, potentially world wars — that will be potentially nuclear — are just around the corner.

So we need to try to go towards “friends together changing the world”. But who are the friends?

And this is where we need a unique, purposeful, and practical method to learn about our own nature, why we relate to others the way we do. Then we will understand, feel that by birth we are all enemies, we all instinctively distrust and reject each other, and the more we try to connect according to the ancient principle of “love others as yourself”, trying to develop “brotherly love” the more we realize we are simply incapable.

So only when we tangibly, viscerally reveal the instinctive reaction, separation can we gradually learn how to build true connection, true friendship, “brotherhood” above everything that separates people from each other.

Then this, purposefully, methodically developed connection above separation, “brotherly love above against baseless hatred” will change the world, give us the ability to build the Nature-like mutual integration our survival depends on.

And the ensuing contrast between the two opposite qualities, emotions will give us a true, objective, unbiased and complete picture, attainment of reality.

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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.