Why should we care about the world’s problems?
Question from the Internet:
“Why do I care so much about the world and world problems?”
In a way, this is natural, and some people are more sensitive to this than others. But at the end of the day, the “world,” global human society, and around us, nature’s cosmic system, is the mother’s womb giving us life.
Somehow, intellectually, we understand this and agree with this. We accept that we exist in a globally integrated and interdependent human society, and we know that we have to look after and preserve nature.
But when it comes to actual actions, we cannot exist and behave outside of and against our inherently “addictive,” 100% self-serving, self-justifying, and exploitative nature.
Whatever we say, whatever we agree to, we simply have to incessantly accumulate and overconsume for our own sake, surviving and succeeding at the expense of others and nature.
Some people are more sensitive to our absolute mutual responsibility towards others and nature; some are even ready and willing to change themselves and how they relate to others and nature and how they live their lives.
And if these sensitive and willing “pioneers” reach a critical mass and start showing a positive example to others — by establishing new, mutually committed, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing environments, cells in between them — they will be able to attract the masses after them, since the masses will be gradually softened and “treated” by the worsening crisis and increasing suffering worldwide.
Thus there is a huge responsibility on the shoulders of those who are already ready to start the transition and self-transformation that nature’s evolution and nature’s laws demand from us.